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|  | AN ACT | 
|  | relating to authorizing the amount of a fee charged by certain | 
|  | counties for issuing certain utility certificates. | 
|  | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | 
|  | SECTION 1.  Section 232.028(g), Local Government Code, is | 
|  | amended to read as follows: | 
|  | (g)  The commissioners court may impose a fee for a | 
|  | certificate issued under this section for a subdivision part of | 
|  | which is located in the extraterritorial jurisdiction of a | 
|  | municipality and part of which is not located in the | 
|  | extraterritorial jurisdiction of the municipality.  The amount of | 
|  | the fee may [ not] be the greater of $30 or [than] the amount of the | 
|  | fee imposed by the municipality for a subdivision that is located | 
|  | entirely in the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the municipality | 
|  | for a certificate issued under Section 212.0115.  A person who | 
|  | obtains a certificate under this section is not required to obtain a | 
|  | certificate under Section 212.0115. | 
|  | 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, 2007. | 
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|  | ______________________________ | ______________________________ | 
|  | President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | 
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|  | I certify that H.B. No. 3834 was passed by the House on May 9, | 
|  | 2007, by the following vote:  Yeas 144, Nays 0, 2 present, not | 
|  | voting. | 
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|  | ______________________________ | 
|  | Chief Clerk of the House | 
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|  | I certify that H.B. No. 3834 was passed by the Senate on May | 
|  | 23, 2007, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0. | 
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|  | ______________________________ | 
|  | Secretary of the Senate | 
|  | APPROVED:  _____________________ | 
|  | Date | 
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|  | _____________________ | 
|  | Governor |