Bill Text: TX SB2245 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the enforcement of traffic regulations on a public road that is owned, operated, and maintained by a special district.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-05-22 - Effective immediately [SB2245 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB2245-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the enforcement of traffic regulations on a public road that is owned, operated, and maintained by a special district.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-05-22 - Effective immediately [SB2245 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB2245-Comm_Sub.html
By: Paxton | S.B. No. 2245 | |
(In the Senate - Filed March 8, 2019; March 21, 2019, read | ||
first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental | ||
Relations; April 17, 2019, reported favorably by the following | ||
vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; April 17, 2019, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to the enforcement of traffic regulations on a public road | ||
that is owned, operated, and maintained by a special district. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 791.036, Government Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
Sec. 791.036. REGULATION OF TRAFFIC IN SPECIAL DISTRICTS. | ||
The commissioners court of a county may enter into an interlocal | ||
contract with the board of a special district for the county to: | ||
(1) apply the county's traffic regulations to a public | ||
road in the county that is owned, operated, and maintained by the | ||
district if the commissioners court finds that it is in the county's | ||
interest to regulate traffic on the public road; and | ||
(2) enforce the regulations. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 251.151(b), Transportation Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(b) Under the terms of an interlocal contract under Section | ||
791.036, Government Code, the [ |
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may: | ||
(1) by order apply the county's traffic regulations to | ||
a public road in the county that is owned, operated, and maintained | ||
by a special district and located wholly or partly in the county; | ||
and | ||
(2) provide for the enforcement of the regulations [ |
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SECTION 3. 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, 2019. | ||
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