82R9908 MTB-D
By: Garza H.B. No. 2596
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the authority to lower certain speed limits by local
governments.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 542, Transportation Code,
is amended by adding Section 542.0075 to read as follows:
Sec. 542.0075. TRAFFIC REGULATIONS: LOWERING OF SPEED LIMITS
IN PRIVATE SUBDIVISION. On the request of all of the property owners
adjacent to a privately maintained road located in a subdivision, a
commissioners court of a county in which the road is located may set
and enforce a speed limit of not less than 20 miles per hour on the
road in the same manner as provided by Section 542.007.
SECTION 2. Sections 545.356(b-1) and (b-2), Transportation
Code, are amended to read as follows:
(b-1) The governing body of a municipality, for a highway or
a part of a highway in the municipality that is not an officially
designated or marked highway or road of the state highway system,
may declare a lower speed limit of not less than 20 [25] miles per
hour, if the governing body determines that the prima facie speed
limit on the highway is unreasonable or unsafe.
(b-2) Subsection (b-1) applies only to a one-lane or
two-lane, undivided highway or part of a highway.
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, 2011.