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. _______________________________ 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. _______________________________ Secretary of the Senate APPROVED: _____________________ Date _____________________ Governor