By:  Hamric                                            H.B. No. 830
       73R2235 RWS-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the use of county roads for festivals and civic events.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 2.301, County Road and Bridge Act
    1-5  (Article 6702-1, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by
    1-6  adding Subsection (j) to read as follows:
    1-7        (j)  The commissioners court of a county by order may permit
    1-8  the temporary use of a county road in the unincorporated area of
    1-9  the county for a festival or other civic event.  The commissioners
   1-10  court by order shall establish procedures for the temporary
   1-11  diversion of traffic from the road being used for the festival or
   1-12  other civic event.
   1-13        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-14  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-15  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-16  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-17  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-18  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-19  passage, and it is so enacted.