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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