By: Watson S.B. No. 1487

(In the Senate - Filed March 7, 2013; March 18, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on Transportation; April 4, 2013, reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; April 4, 2013, sent to printer.)

COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1487 By: Watson

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.

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