By Yarbrough                                           H.B. No. 104
       74R1054 PAM-F
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the local regulation of sound coming from premises
    1-3  covered by certain alcoholic beverage permits or licenses.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 101.62, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is
    1-6  amended to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 101.62.  OFFENSIVE NOISE ON PREMISES.  (a)  No licensee
    1-8  or permittee, on premises under his control, may maintain or permit
    1-9  a radio, television, amplifier, piano, phonograph, music machine,
   1-10  orchestra, band, singer, speaker, entertainer, or other device or
   1-11  person that produces, amplifies, or projects music or other sound
   1-12  that is loud, vociferous, vulgar, indecent, lewd, or otherwise
   1-13  offensive to persons on or near the licensed premises.
   1-14        (b)  The commissioners court of a county may enact
   1-15  regulations applicable in areas in the county outside a
   1-16  municipality, and the governing body of a municipality may enact
   1-17  regulations applicable in the municipality, regulating the amount
   1-18  of sound coming from a premises covered by a:
   1-19              (1)  private club registration permit; or
   1-20              (2)  permit or license that authorizes the sale of
   1-21  alcoholic beverages for on-premise consumption.
   1-22        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-23        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-24  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-1  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-2  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-3  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.