Bill Text: TX SB1412 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the permitting of certain small commercial development sewage collection, treatment, and disposal systems as on-site sewage disposal systems.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-22 - Referred to Natural Resources [SB1412 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB1412-Introduced.html
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| By: Hegar | S.B. No. 1412 | |
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| relating to the permitting of certain small commercial development | ||
| sewage collection, treatment, and disposal systems as on-site | ||
| sewage disposal systems. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 366, Health and Safety | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 366.0513 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 366.0513. SMALL COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT SYSTEMS. (a) | ||
| A small commercial development sewage collection, treatment, and | ||
| disposal system may be permitted as an on-site sewage disposal | ||
| system under this chapter if the system: | ||
| (1) is located on property jointly owned by the | ||
| property owners served by the system; | ||
| (2) produces not more than 5,000 gallons a day on an | ||
| annual average basis; | ||
| (3) serves an area that does not exceed 15 acres; | ||
| (4) is designed to serve two or more sewage-generating | ||
| units on separate tracts of land; | ||
| (5) collects sewage only from commercial or | ||
| institutional facilities or business parks; | ||
| (6) does not dispose of industrial waste, as defined | ||
| by Section 26.001(11), Water Code; and | ||
| (7) is recorded in the manner described by Subsection | ||
| (b). | ||
| (b) Before installing a system permitted under this | ||
| section, the permit holder must record the system in the deed | ||
| records of the county or counties in which the system is to be | ||
| located. The recording shall include: | ||
| (1) a metes and bounds description of the land on which | ||
| the system is to be located; and | ||
| (2) the name and permanent address of the person or | ||
| persons owning the sewage generating units that will use the | ||
| system. | ||
| (c) The owner of each sewage generating unit served by a | ||
| system permitted under Subsection (a): | ||
| (1) is jointly and severally responsible for: | ||
| (A) all maintenance of the system; and | ||
| (B) providing access as necessary for | ||
| maintenance of the system; and | ||
| (2) may be subject to a penalty for a violation of this | ||
| chapter, a rule adopted under this chapter, or a condition of a | ||
| permit issued under this section, relating to the system. | ||
| 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. | ||
