Bill Text: TX HB2552 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the regulation of certain businesses using sanitary sewer services of certain municipalities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-15 - Referred to Natural Resources [HB2552 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB2552-Introduced.html
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| By: Brown | H.B. No. 2552 | |
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| relating to the regulation of certain businesses using sanitary | ||
| sewer services of certain municipalities. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 552, Local Government | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 552.913 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 552.913. REGULATION OF CERTAIN BUSINESSES USING SEWER | ||
| SERVICES OF CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES. (a) This section applies only | ||
| to a home-rule municipality located in a county: | ||
| (1) with a population of less than 200,000; and | ||
| (2) in which two or more municipalities with a | ||
| population of 75,000 or more are primarily located. | ||
| (b) A business connected to a sanitary sewer system not | ||
| owned or operated by the municipality in which the business is | ||
| located shall comply with the applicable sanitary sewer system | ||
| rules, including industrial pretreatment rules, of the | ||
| municipality providing the sanitary sewer service to the business. | ||
| (c) Notwithstanding any other law, a sanitary sewer rule may | ||
| be enforced against the business in the municipal court of the | ||
| municipality that adopted the rule. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
