1-1 By: Barrientos S.B. No. 954
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 7, 1995; March 7, 1995, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
1-4 April 25, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 13,
1-5 Nays 0; April 25, 1995, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to noise abatement requirements of certain municipal
1-9 airports.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Subsection (c), Section 16A, Municipal Airports
1-12 Act (Article 46d-16A, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to
1-13 read as follows:
1-14 (c) Noise Abatement Requirements. The governing body of an
1-15 incorporated city, town, or village that owns a municipal airport
1-16 to which this section applies shall:
1-17 (1) not later than March 31, 1990, comply with the
1-18 applicable provisions of the Aviation Safety and Noise Abatement
1-19 Act of 1979 (49 U.S.C. Sec. 2101 et seq.);
1-20 (2) not later than December 31, 1991, provide adequate
1-21 soundproofing and noise reduction devices for all public buildings
1-22 within the 65 or higher average day-night sound level contour as
1-23 determined by the governing body of the city, town, or village in
1-24 accordance with applicable Federal Aviation Administration Advisory
1-25 Circulars; or
1-26 (3) not later than March 31, 1990, an incorporated
1-27 city, town, or village affected by this Act shall award a contract
1-28 for land acquisition services for the purchase of real property
1-29 required for the site of a replacement airport and complete a
1-30 master plan for the replacement airport and, not later than
1-31 December 31, 1997 <1996>, provide the replacement airport.
1-32 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-33 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-34 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-35 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-36 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-37 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-38 passage, and it is so enacted.
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