By Clark H.B. No. 1627
75R6754 GGS-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to a notice requirement for political advertising signs.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 255.007, Election Code, is amended to
1-5 read as follows:
1-6 Sec. 255.007. NOTICE REQUIREMENT ON POLITICAL ADVERTISING
1-7 SIGNS. (a) The following notice must be written on each political
1-8 advertising sign:
1-9 "NOTICE: IT IS A VIOLATION OF STATE LAW (CHAPTERS 392 AND
1-10 393, TRANSPORTATION CODE) [(ARTICLE 2372cc, VERNON'S TEXAS CIVIL
1-11 STATUTES, AND ARTICLE 6674v-7, REVISED STATUTES)], TO PLACE THIS
1-12 SIGN IN THE RIGHT-OF-WAY OF A HIGHWAY."
1-13 (b) A person commits an offense if the person:
1-14 (1) knowingly enters into a contract to print or make
1-15 a political advertising sign that does not contain the notice
1-16 required by Subsection (a); or
1-17 (2) instructs another person to place a political
1-18 advertising sign that does not contain the notice required by
1-19 Subsection (a).
1-20 (c) An offense under this section is a Class C misdemeanor.
1-21 (d) It is an exception to the application of Subsection (b)
1-22 that the political advertising sign was printed or made before
1-23 September 1, 1997, and complied with Subsection (a) as it existed
1-24 immediately before that date.
2-1 (e) In this section, "political advertising sign" means a
2-2 written form of political advertising designed to be seen from a
2-3 road but does not include a bumper sticker.
2-4 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
2-5 SECTION 3. 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.