By Carter H.B. No. 2956
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the placement of signs on the right-of-way of a public
1-3 road.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Article 6674v-7(c), Revised Statutes, is amended
1-6 to read as follows:
1-7 (c) Except as provided by Subsection (d) of this article,
1-8 the department may, without prior notice to the owner of a sign
1-9 that is in violation of this article, remove the sign, which
1-10 immediately becomes the property of the department <and the owner
1-11 is liable to the department for the costs of removal>.
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.