By: Farias (Senate Sponsor - Wentworth) H.B. No. 1063
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 1, 2009;
May 6, 2009, read first time and referred to Committee on
Intergovernmental Relations; May 22, 2009, reported favorably by
the following vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 22, 2009, sent to printer.)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to emergency vehicle access to certain gated communities
and multiunit housing projects.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 352, Local Government
Code, is amended by adding Section 352.1145 to read as follows:
Sec. 352.1145. SIREN-OPERATED SENSOR SYSTEMS FOR ELECTRIC
GATES. The commissioners court of a county by order may require
that each electric gate to a gated community or multiunit housing
project be equipped with a gate-operating device that:
(1) is approved by the county fire marshal or other
similar authority having jurisdiction over fire prevention; and
(2) will activate the electric gate on the sounding of
an emergency vehicle siren.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.
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