83R2772 JTS-F
By: Ratliff H.B. No. 675
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to regulation by a municipality or county of off-premise
signs advertising sexually oriented businesses.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Chapter 243, Local Government Code, is amended
by adding Section 243.012 to read as follows:
Sec. 243.012. REGULATION OF SEXUALLY ORIENTED BUSINESS
ADVERTISING. A municipality by ordinance or a county by order may
regulate the location of off-premise signs, as that term is defined
by Section 216.002, advertising a sexually oriented business by:
(1) requiring those signs to be located in a
particular area of the municipality or county; or
(2) prohibiting those signs from being located within
a certain distance from a land use that the governing body of the
municipality or county finds to be inconsistent with sexually
oriented business advertising, including:
(A) a school;
(B) a place of worship;
(C) a residential neighborhood; or
(D) an interstate highway, a United States
highway, or a state highway.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.