AN ACT
1-1 relating to permitting an aircraft to be used in alcoholic beverage
1-2 advertising or promotion.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Subdivision (1), Section 108.51, Alcoholic
1-5 Beverage Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-6 (1) "Outdoor advertising" means any sign bearing a
1-7 word, mark, description, or other device that is used to advertise
1-8 an alcoholic beverage or the business of a person who manufactures,
1-9 sells, or distributes an alcoholic beverage if the sign is
1-10 displayed outside the walls or enclosure of a building or structure
1-11 where a license or permit is issued or if it is displayed inside a
1-12 building but within five feet of an exterior wall facing a street
1-13 or highway so that it is visible by a person of ordinary vision
1-14 from outside the building. "Outdoor advertising" does not include
1-15 advertising appearing on radio or television, in a public vehicular
1-16 conveyance for hire, on a race car while participating at a
1-17 professional racing event or at a permanent motorized racetrack
1-18 facility, on a boat participating in a racing event or a boat show,
1-19 on an aircraft [participating in an air show], on a bicycle or on
1-20 the clothing of a member of a bicycle team participating in an
1-21 organized bicycle race, or in a newspaper, magazine, or other
1-22 literary publication published periodically. For the purpose of
1-23 this definition the word "sign," with respect to a retailer, does
2-1 not include an identifying label affixed to a container as
2-2 authorized by law or to a card or certificate of membership in an
2-3 association or organization if the card or certificate is not
2-4 larger than 80 square inches.
2-5 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-6 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-7 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-8 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-9 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-10 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-11 passage, and it is so enacted.
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President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 672 passed the Senate on
April 1, 1997, by the following vote: Yeas 29, Nays 1.
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Secretary of the Senate
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 672 passed the House on
May 26, 1997, by the following vote: Yeas 109, Nays 34, one
present not voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
Approved:
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Date
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Governor