1-1  By:  Armbrister                                        S.B. No. 479
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed February 6, 1995; February 8, 1995,
    1-3  read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
    1-4  March 20, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 11,
    1-5  Nays 0; March 20, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to permitting an aircraft to be used in alcoholic beverage
    1-9  advertising or promotion.
   1-10        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-11        SECTION 1.  Subdivision (1), Section 108.51, Alcoholic
   1-12  Beverage Code, is amended to read as follows:
   1-13              (1)  "Outdoor advertising" means any sign bearing a
   1-14  word, mark, description, or other device that is used to advertise
   1-15  an alcoholic beverage or the business of a person who manufactures,
   1-16  sells, or distributes an alcoholic beverage if the sign is
   1-17  displayed outside the walls or enclosure of a building or structure
   1-18  where a license or permit is issued or if it is displayed inside a
   1-19  building but within five feet of an exterior wall facing a street
   1-20  or highway so that it is visible by a person of ordinary vision
   1-21  from outside the building.  "Outdoor advertising" does not include
   1-22  advertising appearing on radio or television, in a public vehicular
   1-23  conveyance for hire, on a race car while participating at a
   1-24  professional racing event or at a permanent motorized racetrack
   1-25  facility, on a boat participating in a racing event or a boat show,
   1-26  on an aircraft <participating in an air show>, on a bicycle or on
   1-27  the clothing of a member of a bicycle team participating in an
   1-28  organized bicycle race, or in a newspaper, magazine, or other
   1-29  literary publication published periodically.  For the purpose of
   1-30  this definition the word "sign," with respect to a retailer, does
   1-31  not include an identifying label affixed to a container as
   1-32  authorized by law or to a card or certificate of membership in an
   1-33  association or organization if the card or certificate is not
   1-34  larger than 80 square inches.
   1-35        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-36  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-37  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-38  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-39  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-40  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-41  passage, and it is so enacted.
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