By: Seliger S.B. No. 867
(In the Senate - Filed February 14, 2017;
February 27, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on
Transportation; March 13, 2017, reported favorably by the
following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; March 13, 2017, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the designation of United States Highway 287 in
Armstrong and Donley Counties as the Colonel Charles Goodnight
Memorial Highway.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 225, Transportation Code,
is amended by adding Section 225.123 to read as follows:
Sec. 225.123. COLONEL CHARLES GOODNIGHT MEMORIAL
HIGHWAY. (a) The portion of United States Highway 287 from the
eastern corporate limits of Claude to Clarendon in Armstrong and
Donley Counties is designated as the Colonel Charles Goodnight
Memorial Highway.
(b) Subject to Section 225.021(c), the department shall:
(1) design and construct markers indicating the
designation as the Colonel Charles Goodnight Memorial Highway and
any other appropriate information; and
(2) erect a marker at each end of the highway and at
appropriate intermediate sites along the highway.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
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