By: Sibley S.B. No. 888
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the amount of time certain signs may be erected near a
1-2 rural road before an election.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 12, Article 2, Chapter
1-5 221, Acts of the 69th Legislature, Regular Session, 1985 (Article
1-6 6674v-3, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as
1-7 follows:
1-8 (a) The following are exempt from this article:
1-9 (1) a sign the erection and maintenance of which is
1-10 allowed under the highway beautification provisions contained in
1-11 Article IV, Section 1, Chapter 741, Acts of the 67th Legislature,
1-12 Regular Session, 1981 (Article 4477-9a, Vernon's Texas Civil
1-13 Statutes);
1-14 (2) a sign in existence before the effective date of
1-15 this article;
1-16 (3) a sign that has as its purpose the protection of
1-17 life and property;
1-18 (4) a directional or other official sign authorized by
1-19 law, including a sign pertaining to natural wonders or scenic or
1-20 historic attractions;
1-21 (5) a sign or marker giving information about the
1-22 location of underground electric transmission lines, telegraph or
1-23 telephone properties and facilities, pipelines, public sewers, or
1-24 waterlines;
2-1 (6) a sign erected by an agency of the state or a
2-2 political subdivision of the state; and
2-3 (7) a sign erected solely for and relating to a public
2-4 election, but only if:
2-5 (A) the sign is on private property;
2-6 (B) the sign is erected no sooner than the 90th
2-7 <60th> day before the election and is removed no later than the
2-8 10th day after the election;
2-9 (C) the sign is constructed of lightweight
2-10 material; and
2-11 (D) the surface area of the sign is not larger
2-12 than 50 square feet.
2-13 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-18 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-19 passage, and it is so enacted.