By: Cain S.B. No. 1550
97S0821/1
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the regulation and maintenance of county roads.
1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-3 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 251.005, Transportation
1-4 Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-5 (a) A county commissioner serving as a road supervisor shall
1-6 make a sworn annual report during the ninth month of the fiscal
1-7 year on a form approved by [to each regular term of] the
1-8 commissioners court showing:
1-9 (1) the condition of each road or part of a road and
1-10 of each culvert and bridge in the commissioner's precinct;
1-11 (2) the amount of money reasonably necessary for
1-12 maintenance of [held by overseers available to be spent on] the
1-13 roads in the precinct during the following fiscal year;
1-14 (3) the number of traffic control devices [mileposts
1-15 and fingerboards] in the precinct defaced or torn down;
1-16 (4) any new road that should be opened in the
1-17 precinct; and
1-18 (5) any bridges, culverts, or other improvements
1-19 necessary to place the roads in the precinct in good condition, and
1-20 the probable cost of the improvements[; and]
1-21 [(6) the name of each overseer who has failed to work
1-22 on the roads or who in any way neglected to perform the overseer's
1-23 duties].
2-1 SECTION 2. Subsection (b), Section 252.101, Transportation
2-2 Code, is amended to read as follows:
2-3 (b) Notwithstanding Subsection (a), the commissioners court
2-4 of Collin, [or] Dallas, or Van Zandt County may adopt this
2-5 subchapter instead of the special law for that county if the court
2-6 determines that this subchapter is better suited to that county
2-7 than the special law.
2-8 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-9 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-10 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-11 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-12 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-13 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-14 passage, and it is so enacted.