Sec. 2005.004.  GOOD CAUSE.  A state agency has good cause to exceed the period it establishes for processing a permit application if:
(1)  the number of permit applications to be processed exceeds by at least 15 percent the number of permit applications processed in the same quarter of the previous calendar year;
(2)  the agency must rely on another public or private entity to process all or a part of the permit applications received by the agency, and the delay is caused by that entity;  or
(3)  other conditions exist that give the agency good cause for exceeding the established period.
Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 268, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.