By Brimer                                       H.B. No. 3026

      75R2575 JD-F                           

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the erection or maintenance of outdoor advertising on

 1-3     certain airport land.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 391.031, Transportation Code, is amended

 1-6     by amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (e) to read as

 1-7     follows:

 1-8           (b)  A person does not commit an offense if the person erects

 1-9     or maintains in an area described by Subsection (a):

1-10                 (1)  directional or other official outdoor advertising

1-11     authorized by law, including advertising pertaining to a natural

1-12     wonder or a scenic or historic attraction;

1-13                 (2)  outdoor advertising for the sale or lease of the

1-14     property on which it is located;

1-15                 (3)  outdoor advertising solely for activities

1-16     conducted on the property on which it is located;

1-17                 (4)  outdoor advertising located within 660 feet of the

1-18     nearest edge of a right-of-way in an area in which the land use:

1-19                       (A)  is designated industrial or commercial under

1-20     authority of law; or

1-21                       (B)  is not designated industrial or commercial

1-22     under authority of law but the land use is consistent with an area

1-23     designated industrial or commercial;

1-24                 (5)  outdoor advertising that has as its purpose the

 2-1     protection of life and property; [or]

 2-2                 (6)  outdoor advertising erected on or before October

 2-3     22, 1965, that the commission, with the approval of the secretary

 2-4     of the United States Department of Transportation, determines to be

 2-5     a landmark of such historic or artistic significance that

 2-6     preservation is consistent with the purposes of this subchapter; or

 2-7                 (7)  outdoor advertising on land that is located within

 2-8     the boundaries of an airport that is:

 2-9                       (A)  owned jointly by two or more populous

2-10     home-rule municipalities; and

2-11                       (B)  operated by a joint board.

2-12           (e)  For purposes of Subsection (b)(7), "populous home-rule

2-13     municipality" and "joint board" have the meanings assigned those

2-14     terms by Section 22.071.

2-15           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

2-16     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

2-17     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

2-18     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

2-19     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

2-20     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

2-21     passage, and it is so enacted.