TITLE: Relating to the regulation of certain businesses using sanitary sewer services of certain municipalities.

SUMMARY: Relating to the regulation of certain businesses using sanitary sewer services of certain municipalities.

FULL TEXT:
AN ACT 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.