1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to extending speed restrictions to private roads in
1-3 certain subdivisions.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 542.006(a), Transportation Code, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (a) The owners of a majority of the parcels of real property
1-8 abutting a private road may petition the Texas Transportation
1-9 Commission to extend the speed restrictions of this subtitle to the
1-10 portion of the road in a subdivision or across adjacent
1-11 subdivisions if:
1-12 (1) the road is not in a municipality;
1-13 (2) the total number of residents in the subdivision
1-14 and subdivisions adjacent to the subdivision is at least 400; and
1-15 (3) a plat for the subdivision and each adjacent
1-16 subdivision included to determine the number of residents under
1-17 Subdivision (2) has been filed in the deed records of the county[;
1-18 and]
1-19 [(3) the subdivision has at least 400 residents].
1-20 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-1 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-2 passage, and it is so enacted.
_______________________________ _______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 434 was passed by the House on April
23, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 140, Nays 0, 1 present, not
voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 434 was passed by the Senate on May
17, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor