By Hupp H.B. No. 2541
76R7730 DWS-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to traffic offenses occurring in a construction or
1-3 maintenance work zone.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 472.022(e)(2), Transportation Code, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (2) "Construction or maintenance work zone" means a
1-8 portion of a highway or street:
1-9 (A) where highway construction or maintenance is
1-10 being undertaken, other than mobile operations as defined by the
1-11 Texas Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices; and
1-12 (B) that is marked by [one or more] signs
1-13 indicating that it is a construction or maintenance work zone and
1-14 indicating where the zone begins and ends.
1-15 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-16 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.