Texas 2023 88th Regular

Texas House Bill HB4285 Introduced / Bill

Filed 03/09/2023

                    88R10083 SCL-F
 By: Rogers H.B. No. 4285


 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 AN ACT
 relating to enforceability of municipal prohibitions of outdoor
 signs in the municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction.
 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 SECTION 1.  Section 216.902, Local Government Code, is
 amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
 (d)  A municipality that extends its outdoor sign ordinance
 within its extraterritorial jurisdiction may not enforce a
 prohibition on an outdoor sign in the extraterritorial
 jurisdiction:
 (1)  unless the municipality adopts the ordinance
 before the sign is placed; and
 (2)  until the municipality annexes in accordance with
 Chapter 43 the property on which the sign is placed.
 SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.