Bill Text: TX SB1846 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to the authority of municipalities to replat a subdivision without vacating the preceding plat.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-23 - Referred to Intergovernmental Relations [SB1846 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-SB1846-Introduced.html
  2017S0451-1 03/09/17
 
  By: Bettencourt S.B. No. 1846
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the authority of municipalities to replat a subdivision
  without vacating the preceding plat.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 212.0146, Local Government Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         Sec. 212.0146.  REPLATTING WITHOUT VACATING PRECEDING
  PLAT[: CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES]. (a)  [This section applies only to
  a replat of a subdivision or a part of a subdivision located in a
  municipality or the extraterritorial jurisdiction of a
  municipality with a population of 1.3 million or more.
         [(b)]  A replat of a subdivision or part of a subdivision may
  be recorded and is controlling over the preceding plat without
  vacation of that plat if:
               (1)  the replat is signed and acknowledged by each
  owner and only the owners of the property being replatted;
               (2)  the municipal authority responsible for approving
  plats holds a public hearing on the matter at which parties in
  interest and citizens have an opportunity to be heard;
               (3)  the replat does not amend, remove, or violate, or
  have the effect of amending, removing, or violating, any covenants
  or restrictions that are contained or referenced in a dedicatory
  instrument recorded in the real property records separately from
  the preceding plat or replat;
               (4)  the replat does not attempt to amend, remove, or
  violate, or have the effect of amending, removing, or violating,
  any existing public utility easements without the consent of the
  affected utility companies; and
               (5)  the municipal authority responsible for approving
  plats approves the replat after determining that the replat
  complies with this subchapter and rules adopted under Section
  212.002 and this section in effect at the time the application for
  the replat is filed.
         (b) [(c)]  The governing body of a municipality may adopt
  rules governing replats, including rules that establish criteria
  under which covenants, restrictions, or plat notations that are
  contained only in the preceding plat or replat without reference in
  any dedicatory instrument recorded in the real property records
  separately from the preceding plat or replat may be amended or
  removed.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
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