1-1 By: Sibley S.B. No. 888
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 2, 1995; March 6, 1995, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
1-4 March 29, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 13,
1-5 Nays 0; March 29, 1995, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the amount of time certain signs may be erected near a
1-9 rural road before an election.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 12, Article 2, Chapter
1-12 221, Acts of the 69th Legislature, Regular Session, 1985 (Article
1-13 6674v-3, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as
1-14 follows:
1-15 (a) The following are exempt from this article:
1-16 (1) a sign the erection and maintenance of which is
1-17 allowed under the highway beautification provisions contained in
1-18 Article IV, Section 1, Chapter 741, Acts of the 67th Legislature,
1-19 Regular Session, 1981 (Article 4477-9a, Vernon's Texas Civil
1-20 Statutes);
1-21 (2) a sign in existence before the effective date of
1-22 this article;
1-23 (3) a sign that has as its purpose the protection of
1-24 life and property;
1-25 (4) a directional or other official sign authorized by
1-26 law, including a sign pertaining to natural wonders or scenic or
1-27 historic attractions;
1-28 (5) a sign or marker giving information about the
1-29 location of underground electric transmission lines, telegraph or
1-30 telephone properties and facilities, pipelines, public sewers, or
1-31 waterlines;
1-32 (6) a sign erected by an agency of the state or a
1-33 political subdivision of the state; and
1-34 (7) a sign erected solely for and relating to a public
1-35 election, but only if:
1-36 (A) the sign is on private property;
1-37 (B) the sign is erected no sooner than the 90th
1-38 <60th> day before the election and is removed no later than the
1-39 10th day after the election;
1-40 (C) the sign is constructed of lightweight
1-41 material; and
1-42 (D) the surface area of the sign is not larger
1-43 than 50 square feet.
1-44 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-45 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-46 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-47 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-48 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-49 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-50 passage, and it is so enacted.
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