By: Watson S.B. No. 1487
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the abandonment of a county road.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subsection (b), Section 251.057, Transportation
  Code, is amended to read as follows:
         (b)  This section does not apply to:
               (1)  a road to a cemetery, unless a property owner who
  enclosed the road with a fence under Subsection (a) files notice
  with the county clerk of the county in which the road is located
  that the owner agrees to provide reasonable access to the cemetery
  in accordance with Section 711.041, Health and Safety Code; or
               (2)  an access road that is reasonably necessary to
  reach adjoining real property.
         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, 2013.