By: Harris, Chris S.B. No. 126
73R1990 DRH-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the regulation of sight distances along county roads in
1-3 certain counties.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 2.411, County Road and Bridge Act
1-6 (Article 6702-1, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read
1-7 as follows:
1-8 Sec. 2.411. COUNTY SUBJECT TO SUBCHAPTER. This subchapter
1-9 applies only to a county with a population of 1 <1.18> million or
1-10 more, according to the most recent federal census.
1-11 SECTION 2. The heading of Subchapter F, Chapter 2, County
1-12 Road and Bridge Act (Article 6702-1, Vernon's Texas Civil
1-13 Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
1-14 SUBCHAPTER F. REGULATION OF SIGHT DISTANCE ALONG COUNTY ROADS IN
1-15 COUNTY WITH POPULATION OF 1 MILLION <950,000> OR MORE
1-16 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-21 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-22 passage, and it is so enacted.