By: Watson S.B. No. 1487
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. Section 251.057 (b), Transportation Code, is
amended to read as follows:
Sec. 251.057. Abandonment of County Road. (a) A county road
is abandoned when its use has become so infrequent that one or more
adjoining property owners have enclosed the road with a fence
continuously for at least 20 years. The abandoned road may be
reestablished as a public road only in the manner provided for
establishing a new road.
(b) This section does not apply to:
(1) a road to a cemetery unless an adjoining property
owner files an affidavit in the deed records, at any time after the
expiration of the 20-year period provided in subsection (a),
agreeing to provide reasonable access to the cemetery pursuant to
Health & Safety Code Section 711.92 as it existed on September 1,
2013; or
(2) an access road that is reasonably necessary to
reach adjoining real property.
Section 2. This Act takes affect September 1, 2013.