By Truitt                                                H.B. No. 9
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                                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.
 2-1           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.