By: Watson S.B. No. 1487
(In the Senate - Filed March 7, 2013; March 18, 2013, read
first time and referred to Committee on Transportation;
April 4, 2013, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; April 4, 2013,
sent to printer.)
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1487 By: Watson
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the abandonment of a county road.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subsection (b), Section 251.057, Transportation
Code, is amended to read as follows:
(b) This section does not apply to:
(1) a road to a cemetery, unless a property owner who
enclosed the road with a fence under Subsection (a) files notice
with the county clerk of the county in which the road is located
that the owner agrees to provide reasonable access to the cemetery
in accordance with Section 711.041, Health and Safety Code; or
(2) an access road that is reasonably necessary to
reach adjoining real property.
SECTION 2. 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, 2013.
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