Bill Text: TX SB1513 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to sign regulations applicable to certain signs in an area annexed by the municipality.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-22 - Referred to Transportation & Homeland Sec. [SB1513 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB1513-Introduced.html
| By: Deuell | S.B. No. 1513 | |
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| relating to sign regulations applicable to certain signs in an area | ||
| annexed by the municipality. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 216, Local Government | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 216.904 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 216.904. CERTAIN SIGNS IN AREA ANNEXED BY | ||
| MUNICIPALITY. (a) This section applies only in a county with a | ||
| population of more than two million that is adjacent to a county | ||
| with a population of more than one million. | ||
| (b) A municipal ordinance or a state statute regulating | ||
| off-premise signs may not require the relocation, reconstruction, | ||
| or removal of a sign that: | ||
| (1) is located: | ||
| (A) in an area of the municipality that was | ||
| annexed after the sign was originally constructed; and | ||
| (B) adjacent to a highway or proposed highway for | ||
| which an environmental impact statement was required; and | ||
| (2) was originally constructed before the final | ||
| environmental impact statement for the highway was completed. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
