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 Subsections (d) and (e) to read as follows:
(d) Except as provided by Subsection (e), 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.
(e) Subsection (d) does not apply to an area in a
municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction that:
(1) is located within five miles of a military base; or
(2) is located in a county:
(A) located in the hill country viticultural
area;
(B) with a population greater than 240,000; and
(C) that includes the Blanco River.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.