By Hilderbran                                         H.B. No. 3388
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the enforcement of traffic laws on private roads by
 1-3     certain general-law municipalities.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subchapter Z, Chapter 311, Transportation Code,
 1-6     is amended by adding Section 311.905 to read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 311.905.  REGULATION OF TRAFFIC ON PRIVATE ROADS BY TYPE
 1-8     A GENERAL-LAW MUNICIPALITY.  (a)  A Type A general-law municipality
 1-9     in which all of the roads are privately owned may adopt an
1-10     ordinance to regulate the operation of traffic on a private road
1-11     with the consent of the person that owns the road.  The
1-12     municipality may adopt as a part of the ordinance any provision
1-13     regulating traffic contained in Subtitle C, Title 7, for which the
1-14     punishment under Subtitle C is by fine only.  The municipality may
1-15     impose a fine for a violation of an ordinance adopted under this
1-16     section in an amount  not to exceed $500.
1-17           (b)  A municipality may use a sign or other traffic-control
1-18     device to enforce an ordinance adopted under Subsection (a) if the
1-19     sign or device complies with the uniform system adopted by the
1-20     Texas Transportation Commission under Chapter 544.  A sign or
1-21     traffic-control device may not be placed on private property
1-22     without the consent of the owner of the property.
1-23           (c)  A municipality adopting an ordinance under this section
1-24     may spend municipal funds for the enforcement of the ordinance.
 2-1           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-2     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-3     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-4     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-5     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
 2-6     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 2-7     passage, and it is so enacted.