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By Glaze H.B. No. 2266
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the regulation and maintenance of county roads.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 251.005, Texas Transportation Code is
1-5 amended to read as follows:
1-6 Sec. 251.005. Commissioner's Road Report. (a) A county
1-7 commissioner serving as a road supervisor shall make a sworn annual
1-8 report [to each regular term of] during the ninth month of the
1-9 fiscal year on a form approved by the commissioners court showing:
1-10 (1) the condition of each road or part of a road and
1-11 of each culvert and bridge in the commissioner's precinct;
1-12 (2) the amount of money [held by overseers available]
1-13 reasonably necessary for maintenance of [to be spent on] the roads
1-14 in the precinct during the following fiscal year;
1-15 (3) the number of [mileposts and fingerboards] traffic
1-16 control devices in the precinct defaced or torn down;
1-17 (4) any new road that should be opened in the
1-18 precinct; and
1-19 (5) any bridges, culverts, or other improvements
1-20 necessary to place the roads in the precinct in good condition, and
1-21 the probable cost of the improvements.[; and]
1-22 [(6) the name of each overseer who has failed to work
1-23 on the roads or who in any way neglected to perform the overseer's
1-24 duties.]
2-1 (b) The report shall be entered in the minutes of the
2-2 commissioners court to be considered in improving public roads and
2-3 determining the amount of taxes imposed for public roads.
2-4 (c) The report shall be submitted, together with each
2-5 contract made by the court since its last report for any work on
2-6 any road, to the grand jury at the first term of the district court
2-7 occurring after the report is made to the commissioners court.
2-8 SECTION 2. Sec. 252.101 Texas Transportation Code is amended
2-9 to read as follows:
2-10 Sec. 252.101. Subchapter Not Applicable to Certain Counties.
2-11 (a) This subchapter does not apply to Angelina, Aransas, Blanco,
2-12 Bowie, Calhoun, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Comal, Dallas, Delta, DeWitt,
2-13 Fayette, Franklin, Galveston, Gillespie, Grayson, Gregg, Harris,
2-14 Harrison, Henderson, Hill, Hopkins, Houston, Jack, Jackson, Jasper,
2-15 Lamar, Lavaca, Limestone, McLennan, Milam, Montgomery, Morris,
2-16 Nacogdoches, Newton, Panola, Parker, Rains, Red River, Refugio,
2-17 Sabine, San Augustine, Shelby, Smith, Tarrant, Titus, Travis,
2-18 Trinity, Tyler, Upshur, Van Zandt, Victoria, Washington, or Wood
2-19 County.
2-20 (b) Notwithstanding Subsection (a), the commissioners court
2-21 of Collin [or] Dallas, or Van Zandt County may adopt this subchapter
2-22 instead of the special law for that county if the court determines
2-23 that this subchapter is better suited to that county than the
2-24 special law.
2-25 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-26 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-27 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-28 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-29 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-30 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
3-1 passage, and it is so enacted.