Bill Text: TX SB357 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to outdoor advertising signs regulated by the Texas Department of Transportation.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/19 [SB357 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB357-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to outdoor advertising signs regulated by the Texas Department of Transportation.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/19 [SB357 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB357-Comm_Sub.html
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By: Nichols, et al. | S.B. No. 357 | |
(Canales) | ||
Substitute the following for S.B. No. 357: No. |
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relating to outdoor advertising signs regulated by the Texas | ||
Department of Transportation. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 391.038, Transportation Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 391.038. SIGN HEIGHT. (a) Except as otherwise | ||
provided by this section, a sign may not be higher than 60 feet, | ||
excluding a cutout that extends above the rectangular border of the | ||
sign, measured: | ||
(1) from the grade level of the centerline of the | ||
main-traveled way, not including a frontage road of a controlled | ||
access highway, closest to the sign at a point perpendicular to the | ||
sign location; or | ||
(2) if the main-traveled way is below grade, from the | ||
base of the sign structure [ |
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(a-1) Subsection (a) does not apply to a sign regulated by a | ||
municipality certified for local control under an agreement with | ||
the department as provided by department rule. | ||
(b) A sign existing on March 1, 2017, that was erected | ||
before that date [ |
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than 85 feet, excluding a cutout that extends above the rectangular | ||
border of the sign, measured: | ||
(1) from the grade level of the centerline of the | ||
main-traveled way, not including a frontage road of a controlled | ||
access highway, closest to the sign at a point perpendicular to the | ||
sign location; or | ||
(2) if the main-traveled way is below grade, from the | ||
base of the sign structure. | ||
(c) A person may rebuild a sign existing on March 1, 2017, | ||
that was erected before that date [ |
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without obtaining a new or amended permit from the department, | ||
provided that the sign is rebuilt at the same location where the | ||
sign existed on March 1, 2017, and at a height that does not exceed | ||
the height of the sign on that date. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |