By Truitt H.B. No. 9
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the zoning powers of certain airports.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Title 3, Chapter 22, Transportation Code, Section
1-5 22.001 is amended to read as follows:
1-6 (6) "Essential Airport Property" means property
1-7 intended for use as an air navigation facility, an airport or an
1-8 airport hazard area.
1-9 [(6)] (7) "Local government" means a county or
1-10 municipality in this state.
1-11 SECTION 2. Title 3, Chapter 22, Transportation Code, Section
1-12 22.074(d) is amended to read as follows:
1-13 (d) If the constituent agencies of a joint board are
1-14 populous home-rule municipalities, a power described by Subsection
1-15 (c) is exclusively the power of the board regardless of whether all
1-16 or part of the airport, air navigation facility, or airport hazard
1-17 area is located in or outside the territory of any of the
1-18 constituent agencies. Another local government or other political
1-19 subdivision may not enact or enforce a zoning ordinance,
1-20 subdivision regulation, construction code, or other ordinance
1-21 purporting to regulate the use or development of essential airport
1-22 property applicable in the geographic boundaries of the airport as
1-23 it may be expanded.
1-24 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.