By: Brady H.B. No. 1803 73R479 SOS-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the regulation of on-premise signs by certain 1-3 municipalities. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 216.901(b), Local Government Code, is 1-6 amended to read as follows: 1-7 (b) Subsection (a) does not authorize a municipality to: 1-8 (1) regulate the relocation, reconstruction, or 1-9 removal of a sign in violation of Subchapter A; or 1-10 (2) charge a fee or impose a fine in violation of 1-11 Section 216.902(d). 1-12 SECTION 2. Section 216.902, Local Government Code, is 1-13 amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows: 1-14 (d) In connection with its regulation of on-premise signs in 1-15 its extraterritorial jurisdiction, a municipality with a population 1-16 of 1.5 million or more may not: 1-17 (1) charge a fee other than a fee for a permit issued 1-18 by the municipality to initially erect an on-premise sign within 1-19 the municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction that is located in 1-20 a county that is adjacent to the county in which the majority of 1-21 the land of the municipality is located; or 1-22 (2) impose a fine other than a fine for violating an 1-23 on-premise sign ordinance that is: 1-24 (A) adopted by the municipality; and 2-1 (B) extended within the municipality's 2-2 extraterritorial jurisdiction that is located in a county that is 2-3 adjacent to the county in which the majority of the land of the 2-4 municipality is located. 2-5 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993. 2-6 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 2-7 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-8 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-9 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-10 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.