By: Henderson S.B. No. 341 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the use of county roads for festivals and civic events. 1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-3 SECTION 1. Section 2.301, County Road and Bridge Act 1-4 (Article 6702-1, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by 1-5 adding Subsection (j) to read as follows: 1-6 (j) The commissioners court of a county by order may permit 1-7 the temporary use of a county road in the unincorporated area of 1-8 the county for a festival or other civic event. The commissioners 1-9 court by order shall establish procedures for the temporary 1-10 diversion of traffic from the road being used for the festival or 1-11 other civic event. 1-12 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-13 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-15 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-17 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-18 passage, and it is so enacted.