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.