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Amend SB 1266 (engrossed version) by striking Section 2 and
substituting the following:
SECTION 2. Section 391.252, Transportation Code, is amended
by adding Subsections (d), (e), (f), and (g) to read as follows:
(d) Notwithstanding any other law, before the portion of an
Act of the legislature that amends Subsection (a) to add one or more
segments of public road can become effective, the department shall
send a written notice, by certified mail, to each landowner who owns
real property, according to the most recent certified county tax
appraisal roll, along the added segment of public road. Upon
receiving a request from the department, the county clerk of a
county in which an added segment of public road is located shall
send the department a list containing the names and mailing
addresses of each landowner who owns real property, according to
the most recent certified tax appraisal roll, along the added
segment of public road. The notice mailed to each landowner
pursuant to this subsection shall identify the added segment of
public road and state that the landowner's future right to lease the
landowner's property for the purpose of erecting an off-premise
sign will be terminated unless the landowner notifies the
department that the landowner plans to exclude the landowner's
property from the application of the portion of the Act that amends
Subsection (a) to add the segment of public road along which the
landowner's property is located. The notice must be sent to
landowners by the department in accordance with this subsection
within 90 days of the date an Act subject to this subsection is
signed by the governor, filed with the secretary of state without
the governor's signature, or approved by the legislature
notwithstanding the objections of the governor.
(e) The department shall document the date that the notice
required by Subsection (d) was mailed to landowners and shall
maintain a copy of the notice and a list of the landowners to whom
the notice was mailed. The records required to be maintained by
this subsection are public information for the purposes of Chapter
552, Government Code.
(f) By notifying the department in writing, by certified
mail, a landowner to whom a notice is mailed by the department as
provided by Subsection (d) may exclude the landowner's property
from the application of the portion of the Act that amends
Subsection (a) to add the segment of public road along which the
landowner's property is located. In order for the landowner's
property to be excluded from the application of that portion of the
Act, the landowner's notice must be received by the department
within one year of the date the department mailed all required
notices to landowners pursuant to Subsection (d). The landowner's
exclusion becomes effective on the date the landowner's notice is
received by the department.
(g) Notwithstanding any other law, the portion of an Act of
the legislature that is subject to Subsection (d) takes effect on
the 91st day after the day that all notices required by Subsection
(d) have been mailed to landowners.
SECTION 3. EFFECTIVE DATE. (a) Except as otherwise provided
by this section, this Act takes effect on September 1, 2009.
(b) Section 1 of this Act takes effect on the 91st day after
the day that all notices required by Section 391.252(d),
Transportation Code, as added by this Act, have been mailed to
landowners.