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.