1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to allowing the placement of directional signs for small
1-3 businesses along certain highways.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 394.003, Transportation Code, is amended
1-6 by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
1-7 (c) This chapter does not apply to a directional sign for a
1-8 small business, as defined by Section 2006.011, Government Code, if
1-9 the sign:
1-10 (1) is on private property; and
1-11 (2) has a surface area not larger than 50 square feet.
1-12 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-13 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-15 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-17 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-18 passage, and it is so enacted.
_______________________________ _______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 254 was passed by the House on April
18, 1997, by the following vote: Yeas 142, Nays 0, 2 present, not
voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 254 was passed by the Senate 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