Texas 2023 88th Regular

Texas House Bill HB4285 Comm Sub / Bill

Filed 04/25/2023

                    88R22918 SCL-F
 By: Rogers H.B. No. 4285
 Substitute the following for H.B. No. 4285:
 By:  Burns C.S.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)  This subsection does not apply to an area in a
 municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction that is located
 within five miles of a military base.  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.