By Turner of Coleman H.B. No. 434
76R624 DWS-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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 if:
1-11 (1) the road is not in a municipality;
1-12 (2) the total number of residents in the subdivision
1-13 and subdivisions adjacent to the subdivision is at least 400; and
1-14 (3) a plat for the subdivision and each adjacent
1-15 subdivision included to determine the number of residents under
1-16 Subdivision (2) has been filed in the deed records of the county[;
1-17 and]
1-18 [(3) the subdivision has at least 400 residents].
1-19 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-24 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-1 passage, and it is so enacted.