By: Hegar S.B. No. 735

(In the Senate - Filed February 19, 2007; March 6, 2007, read first time and referred to Committee on Transportation and Homeland Security; April 3, 2007, reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; April 3, 2007, sent to printer.)

COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 735 By: Watson

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the conversion of a two-way frontage road to a one-way frontage road by the Texas Department of Transportation.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 203, Transportation Code, is amended by adding Section 203.035 to read as follows:

Sec. 203.035. CONVERSION OF TWO-WAY FRONTAGE ROAD TO ONE-WAY FRONTAGE ROAD. The department may convert a frontage road that provides for two-way movement of traffic to a frontage road that provides for one-way movement of traffic unless:

(1) there is no corresponding frontage road on the opposite side of the main-traveled lanes of the controlled access highway associated with the frontage road for the circulation of local traffic; and

(2) before the conversion is completed, a motion or order objecting to the conversion is adopted and filed with the district engineer for the applicable department district by:

(A) the commissioners court of the county in which the frontage road is located; or

(B) if the frontage road or the portion of the frontage road being converted is wholly contained within the incorporated limits of a city, the city council or governing body of the city in which the frontage road or the portion of the frontage road is located.

SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this Act takes effect September 1, 2007.

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