By: Deuell S.B. No. 1513
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
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.