By Jones of Lubbock H.B. No. 2997
75R9292 PAM-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the regulation of outdoor advertising in certain dry
1-3 areas.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 108.56, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 108.56. DRY AREAS. (a) Except as provided by
1-8 Subsection (b), no [No] person may erect or maintain a billboard or
1-9 electric sign in an area or zone where the sale of alcoholic
1-10 beverages is prohibited by law.
1-11 (b) A person may erect or maintain a billboard in an area or
1-12 zone where the sale of alcoholic beverages is prohibited by law if:
1-13 (1) the billboard is within 1,500 feet of the premises
1-14 that the billboard advertises; and
1-15 (2) an interstate highway separates the premises and
1-16 the billboard.
1-17 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-22 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-23 passage, and it is so enacted.