Bill Text: TX HB675 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to regulation by a municipality or county of off-premise signs advertising sexually oriented businesses.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-03-06 - Withdrawn from schedule [HB675 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB675-Introduced.html
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| By: Ratliff | H.B. No. 675 | |
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| 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. | ||
