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By Goolsby H.B. No. 1256
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to permitting an aircraft to be used in alcoholic beverage
1-3 advertising or promotion.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 108.51(1), Alcoholic Beverage Code, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 "Outdoor advertising" means any sign bearing a word, mark,
1-8 description, or other device that is used to advertise an alcoholic
1-9 beverage or the business of a person who manufactures, sells, or
1-10 distributes an alcoholic beverage if the sign is displayed outside
1-11 the walls or enclosure of a building or structure where a license
1-12 or permit is issued or if it is displayed inside a building but
1-13 within five feet of an exterior wall facing a street or highway so
1-14 that it is visible by a person of ordinary vision from outside the
1-15 building. "Outdoor advertising" does not include advertising
1-16 appearing on radio or television, in a public vehicular conveyance
1-17 for hire, on a race car while participating at a professional
1-18 racing event or at a permanent motorized racetrack facility, on a
1-19 boat participating in a racing event or a boat show, on a aircraft
1-20 [participating in an air show], on a bicycle or on the clothing of
1-21 member of a bicycling team participating in an organized bicycle
1-22 race, or in a newspaper, magazine, or other literary publication
1-23 published periodically. For the purpose of this definition the
1-24 word "sign," with respect to a retailer, does not include an
2-1 identifying label affixed to a container as authorized by law or to
2-2 a card or certificate of membership in an association or
2-3 organization if the card or certificate is not larger than 80
2-4 square inches.
2-5 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-6 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-7 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-8 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-9 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.