83R2772 JTS-F
 
  By: Ratliff H.B. No. 675
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to regulation by a municipality or county of off-premise
  signs advertising sexually oriented businesses.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Chapter 243, Local Government Code, is amended
  by adding Section 243.012 to read as follows:
         Sec. 243.012.  REGULATION OF SEXUALLY ORIENTED BUSINESS
  ADVERTISING. A municipality by ordinance or a county by order may
  regulate the location of off-premise signs, as that term is defined
  by Section 216.002, advertising a sexually oriented business by:
               (1)  requiring those signs to be located in a
  particular area of the municipality or county; or
               (2)  prohibiting those signs from being located within
  a certain distance from a land use that the governing body of the
  municipality or county finds to be inconsistent with sexually
  oriented business advertising, including:
                     (A)  a school;
                     (B)  a place of worship;
                     (C)  a residential neighborhood; or
                     (D)  an interstate highway, a United States
  highway, or a state highway.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.