82R7001 AJZ-F
By: Workman H.B. No. 1066
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to requiring the use of display timers with certain
traffic-control signals.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 707.003, Transportation Code, is amended
by adding Subsection (i) to read as follows:
(i) A local authority shall install a timer at each
intersection at which a photographic traffic signal enforcement
system is in active use that displays the number of seconds that
remain before the traffic-control signal changes. The timer must
be easily readable to any operator approaching the intersection
with illuminated numbers not less than 12 inches high.
SECTION 2. A municipality or a local authority, as defined
by Section 541.002, Transportation Code, shall ensure that a
photographic traffic signal enforcement system that was installed
by the municipality or local authority before the effective date of
this Act complies with this Act not later than September 1, 2012.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.