Amend HB 599 on third reading as amended by Floor Amendment
No. 1 by Eissler as follows:
(1) Add the following appropriately numbered section to the
bill and renumber the remaining sections appropriately:
SECTION __. Section 391.001, Transportation Code, is
amended by adding Subdivision (1-a) to read as follows:
(1-a) "Billboard" means a structure directly attached
to land or a building that has a panel or other space that is
intended to be rented or is rented by a person other than the owner
of the structure for the display of advertising or other
information.
(2) Strike amended Section 391.031(a), Transportation Code,
and substitute the following:
(a) A person commits an offense if the person [wilfully]
erects or maintains outdoor advertising, or allows outdoor
advertising, other than a billboard, to be erected or maintained on
property owned by the person:
(1) within 660 feet of the nearest edge of a
right–of–way if the advertising is visible from the main-traveled
way of the interstate or primary system; or
(2) outside an urban area if the advertising is
located more than 660 feet from the nearest edge of a right–of–way,
is visible from the main-traveled way of the interstate or primary
system, and is erected for the purpose of having its message seen
from the main-traveled way of the interstate or primary system.