By Nixon                                               S.B. No. 791
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to specific information logo signs in certain counties.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subchapter D, Chapter 391, Transportation Code,
 1-5     is amended by adding Section 391.0915 to read as follows:
 1-6           Sec. 391.0915.  COUNTY ADMINISTRATION IN CERTAIN COUNTIES.
 1-7     (a)  In a county with a population of less than 10,000, the
 1-8     commissioners court of the county by order may assume all the
 1-9     powers and duties of the commission under this subchapter.  A
1-10     commissioners court proposing to assume authority under this
1-11     section shall provide the commission notice of that fact and a copy
1-12     of the court's order not later than the 90th day before the date
1-13     the court proposes to assume authority.  The commissioners court by
1-14     order may relinquish authority assumed under this section by
1-15     providing notice of that fact and a copy of the court's order to
1-16     the commission not later than the 90th day before the date the
1-17     court proposes to relinquish authority.
1-18           (b)  An order adopted under Subsection (a) must specify the
1-19     date on which the commissioners court proposes to assume or
1-20     relinquish the powers and duties of the commission under this
1-21     subchapter.
1-22           (c)  A contract for the placement of signs under this
1-23     subchapter is not affected by the assumption of authority by the
1-24     commissioners court under this section except that all payments
 2-1     under the contract shall be made to the county.
 2-2           (d)  All funds received by a county under this subchapter
 2-3     shall be deposited in the general fund of the county.
 2-4           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-5     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-6     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-7     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-8     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
 2-9     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-10     passage, and it is so enacted.