By Bernsen S.B. No. 1680 76R6636 DWS-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to construction, repair, and maintenance of roads in or 1-3 adjacent to certain state parks and wildlife facilities. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 13, Parks and Wildlife 1-6 Code, is amended by adding Section 13.021 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 13.021. ROAD IN OR ADJACENT TO PARKS AND WILDLIFE 1-8 FACILITY. (a) In this section, "parks and wildlife facility" 1-9 means a state park, state fish hatchery, state wildlife management 1-10 area, or support facility for a state park, state fish hatchery, or 1-11 state wildlife management area. 1-12 (b) The department shall obtain, by lease or by acquisition 1-13 of title, jurisdiction and control over public roads that provide 1-14 access to a parks and wildlife facility or that are located in or 1-15 adjacent to a parks and wildlife facility. 1-16 (c) If no state highway provides direct access to a parks 1-17 and wildlife facility, the department shall construct, repair, and 1-18 maintain any road necessary to provide access between the facility 1-19 and a state highway. 1-20 (d) If a public road under the jurisdiction of a 1-21 municipality or county is being used to enter a parks and wildlife 1-22 facility from a state highway, the department shall enter into an 1-23 agreement with the municipality or county for the use, repair, and 1-24 maintenance of the road. 2-1 (e) If the department does not have an easement, 2-2 right-of-way, or public road access to a parks and wildlife 2-3 facility, the department shall acquire, with the express written 2-4 consent of all affected private landowners, any private land 2-5 required for right-of-way purposes. 2-6 SECTION 2. Section 13.013, Parks and Wildlife Code, and 2-7 Section 1.02, Chapter 7, Acts of the 72nd Legislature, 1st Called 2-8 Session, 1991, are repealed. 2-9 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-10 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-11 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-12 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-13 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-14 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-15 passage, and it is so enacted.