By: Barrientos S.B. No. 954
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to noise abatement requirements of certain municipal
1-2 airports.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Subsection (c), Section 16A, Municipal Airports
1-5 Act (Article 46d-16A, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 (c) Noise Abatement Requirements. The governing body of an
1-8 incorporated city, town, or village that owns a municipal airport
1-9 to which this section applies shall:
1-10 (1) not later than March 31, 1990, comply with the
1-11 applicable provisions of the Aviation Safety and Noise Abatement
1-12 Act of 1979 (49 U.S.C. Sec. 2101 et seq.);
1-13 (2) not later than December 31, 1991, provide adequate
1-14 soundproofing and noise reduction devices for all public buildings
1-15 within the 65 or higher average day-night sound level contour as
1-16 determined by the governing body of the city, town, or village in
1-17 accordance with applicable Federal Aviation Administration Advisory
1-18 Circulars; or
1-19 (3) not later than March 31, 1990, an incorporated
1-20 city, town, or village affected by this Act shall award a contract
1-21 for land acquisition services for the purchase of real property
1-22 required for the site of a replacement airport and complete a
1-23 master plan for the replacement airport and, not later than
1-24 December 31, 1997 <1996>, provide the replacement airport.
2-1 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-2 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-3 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-4 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-5 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-6 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-7 passage, and it is so enacted.