Bill Text: TX SB60 | 2023 | 88th Legislature 3rd Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the notice and petition for the creation of a municipal utility district in certain counties.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-10-10 - Filed [SB60 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB60-Introduced.html
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| By: Hall | S.B. No. 60 | |
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| relating to the notice and petition for the creation of a municipal | ||
| utility district in certain counties. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Sections 54.001(4) and (5), Water Code, are | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
| (4) "Commission" means the Texas [ |
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| (5) "Executive director" means the executive director | ||
| of the commission [ |
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| SECTION 2. Subchapter B, Chapter 54, Water Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Section 54.0135 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 54.0135. PRE-PETITION NOTICE TO CERTAIN COUNTIES. (a) | ||
| This section applies only to a proposed district described by | ||
| Section 54.0161(a). | ||
| (b) Before a petition requesting creation of a proposed | ||
| district is filed with the commission under Section 54.014, notice | ||
| must be sent by certified mail to the commissioners court of each | ||
| county in which the proposed district is to be located. The notice | ||
| must: | ||
| (1) generally describe the boundaries of the land to | ||
| be included in the proposed district, including, if possible, by | ||
| metes and bounds or by lot and block number if there is a recorded | ||
| map or plat and survey of the area to be included in the district; | ||
| and | ||
| (2) inform the commissioners court of the right to: | ||
| (A) respond to the notice provided under this | ||
| section; | ||
| (B) review the petition requesting creation of | ||
| the proposed district; and | ||
| (C) submit a written opinion on the creation of | ||
| the proposed district under Section 54.0161. | ||
| (c) Notice under this section must be sent by certified mail | ||
| at least 30 days before the date a petition requesting creation of | ||
| the proposed district is filed with the commission under Section | ||
| 54.014. | ||
| SECTION 3. Section 54.015, Water Code, is amended to read as | ||
| follows: | ||
| Sec. 54.015. CONTENTS OF PETITION. The petition shall: | ||
| (1) describe the boundaries of the proposed district | ||
| by metes and bounds or by lot and block number, if there is a | ||
| recorded map or plat and survey of the area; | ||
| (2) state the general nature of the work proposed to be | ||
| done, the necessity for the work, and the cost of the project as | ||
| then estimated by those filing the petition; [ |
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| (3) include a name of the district which shall be | ||
| generally descriptive of the locale of the district followed by the | ||
| words Municipal Utility District, or if a district is located | ||
| within one county, it may be designated "__________ County | ||
| Municipal Utility District No. ______." (Insert the name of the | ||
| county and proper consecutive number.) The proposed district shall | ||
| not have the same name as any other district in the same county; and | ||
| (4) for a district described by Section 54.0161, | ||
| include a copy of the notice described by Section 54.0135. | ||
| SECTION 4. Section 54.0135, Water Code, as added by this | ||
| Act, and Section 54.015, Water Code, as amended by this Act, apply | ||
| only to a petition requesting creation of a municipal utility | ||
| district filed with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality | ||
| on or after the effective date of this Act. A petition requesting | ||
| creation of a municipal utility district pending before the Texas | ||
| Commission on Environmental Quality on the effective date of this | ||
| Act is governed by the law in effect on the date the petition was | ||
| filed, and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 5. This Act takes effect on the 91st day after the | ||
| last day of the legislative session. | ||
