1-1 By: Turner of Coleman (Senate Sponsor - Madla) H.B. No. 434
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 26, 1999;
1-3 April 27, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Intergovernmental Relations; May 6, 1999, reported favorably by the
1-5 following vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 6, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to extending speed restrictions to private roads in
1-9 certain subdivisions.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 542.006(a), Transportation Code, is
1-12 amended to read as follows:
1-13 (a) The owners of a majority of the parcels of real property
1-14 abutting a private road may petition the Texas Transportation
1-15 Commission to extend the speed restrictions of this subtitle to the
1-16 portion of the road in a subdivision or across adjacent
1-17 subdivisions if:
1-18 (1) the road is not in a municipality;
1-19 (2) the total number of residents in the subdivision
1-20 and subdivisions adjacent to the subdivision is at least 400; and
1-21 (3) a plat for the subdivision and each adjacent
1-22 subdivision included to determine the number of residents under
1-23 Subdivision (2) has been filed in the deed records of the county[;
1-24 and]
1-25 [(3) the subdivision has at least 400 residents].
1-26 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-27 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-28 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-29 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-30 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-31 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-32 passage, and it is so enacted.
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