1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the authority of the commissioners court of a county to
1-3 alter speed limits on county roads.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 545.355(a), Transportation Code, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (a) The commissioners court of a county, for a county road
1-8 or highway outside the limits of the right-of-way of an officially
1-9 designated or marked highway or road of the state highway system
1-10 and outside a municipality, has the same authority to increase
1-11 [alter] prima facie speed limits from the results of an engineering
1-12 and traffic investigation as the Texas Transportation Commission on
1-13 an officially designated or marked highway of the state highway
1-14 system, and may declare a lower speed limit of not less than 30
1-15 miles per hour on a county road or highway to which this section
1-16 applies, if the commissioners court determines that the prima facie
1-17 speed limit on the road or highway is unreasonable or unsafe. The
1-18 commissioners court may not modify the rule established by Section
1-19 545.351(a) or establish a speed limit of more than 60 miles per
1-20 hour.
1-21 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-2 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-3 passage, and it is so enacted.
_______________________________ _______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 130 was passed by the House on May
10, 1997, by the following vote: Yeas 140, Nays 0, 2 present, not
voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.
No. 130 on May 24, 1997, by the following vote: Yeas 140, Nays 0,
1 present, not voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 130 was passed by the Senate, with
amendments, on May 22, 1997, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays
0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor