1-1 By: Jones of Lubbock (Senate Sponsor - Duncan) H.B. No. 2997
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 5, 1997;
1-3 May 6, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on State
1-4 Affairs; May 16, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 13, Nays 0; May 16, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the regulation of outdoor advertising in certain dry
1-9 areas.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 108.56, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is
1-12 amended to read as follows:
1-13 Sec. 108.56. DRY AREAS. (a) Except as provided by
1-14 Subsection (b), no [No] person may erect or maintain a billboard or
1-15 electric sign in an area or zone where the sale of alcoholic
1-16 beverages is prohibited by law.
1-17 (b) A person may erect or maintain a billboard in an area or
1-18 zone where the sale of alcoholic beverages is prohibited by law if:
1-19 (1) the premises that the billboard advertises is
1-20 located in a county with a population of 250,000 or less; and
1-21 (2) the billboard is within 1,500 feet of the premises
1-22 that the billboard advertises; and
1-23 (3) a United States highway that merges into and
1-24 becomes an interstate highway separates the premises and the
1-25 billboard; or
1-26 (4) the billboard is located adjacent to a wet
1-27 precinct separated by a United States highway that merges into and
1-28 becomes an interstate highway in a county with a population of
1-29 250,000 or less and advertises directions to a winery located in
1-30 the adjacent wet precinct.
1-31 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-32 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-33 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-34 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-35 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-36 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-37 passage, and it is so enacted.
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