By Siebert                                      H.B. No. 1908

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the placement of signage on certain public roads.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 393.002, Transportation Code, is amended

 1-5     to read as follows:

 1-6           Sec. 393.002.  Sign Placement Prohibited.  A person may not

 1-7     place a sign on the right-of-way of a state public road unless the

 1-8     placement is authorized by state law.

 1-9           SECTION 2.  EFFECTIVE DATE.  This Act takes effect September

1-10     1, 1997.

1-11           SECTION 3.  EMERGENCY.  The importance of this legislation

1-12     and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-13     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-14     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-15     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.