By:  Chisum                                            H.B. No. 467
       73R2646 DRH-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the signs erected along certain highways by nonprofit
    1-3  organizations.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 4.06, Chapter 741, Acts of the 67th
    1-6  Legislature, Regular Session, 1981 (Article 4477-9a, Vernon's Texas
    1-7  Civil Statutes), is amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as
    1-8  follows:
    1-9        (d)  The combined license and permit fees may not be more
   1-10  than $10 for a sign erected and maintained by a nonprofit
   1-11  organization in a municipality or the extraterritorial jurisdiction
   1-12  of a municipality if the sign advertises or promotes only the
   1-13  municipality or another political subdivision whose jurisdiction is
   1-14  in whole or in part concurrent with the municipality.  The
   1-15  nonprofit organization is not required to file a bond as provided
   1-16  by Section 4.04(b)(3) of this Act.
   1-17        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-18  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-19  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-20  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-21  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-22  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-23  passage, and it is so enacted.