Bill Text: TX SB921 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to regulation of traffic in a conservation and reclamation district by a commissioners court.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-04-27 - Left pending in committee [SB921 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB921-Introduced.html
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By: Deuell | S.B. No. 921 |
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relating to regulation of traffic in a conservation and reclamation | ||
district by a commissioners court. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 791, Government Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 791.035 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 791.035. REGULATION OF TRAFFIC IN CERTAIN DISTRICTS. | ||
The commissioners court of a county may enter into an interlocal | ||
contract with the board of a conservation and reclamation district | ||
organized or operating under Section 52, Article III, or Section | ||
59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution, to apply the county's traffic | ||
regulations to a public road in the county that is owned, operated, | ||
and maintained by the district if the commissioners court finds | ||
that it is in the county's interest to regulate traffic on the | ||
public road. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 251.151, Transportation Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 251.151. AUTHORITY OF COMMISSIONERS COURT TO REGULATE | ||
CERTAIN ROADS. (a) The commissioners court of a county may regulate | ||
traffic on a county road or on real property owned by the county | ||
that is under the jurisdiction of the commissioners court. | ||
(b) The commissioners court of a county may by order apply | ||
the county's traffic regulations to a public road in the county that | ||
is owned, operated, and maintained by a conservation and | ||
reclamation district organized or operating under Section 52, | ||
Article III, or Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution, and | ||
located wholly or partly in the county if the commissioners court | ||
and the board of the district have entered into an interlocal | ||
contract under Section 791.035, Government Code. | ||
(c) A public road that is subject to an order under | ||
Subsection (b) is considered to be a county road for purposes of | ||
applying a traffic regulation to the public road. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 251.155(a), Transportation Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) The commissioners court of a county may adopt | ||
regulations establishing a system of traffic control devices in | ||
restricted traffic zones on: | ||
(1) property described by Section 251.151(a); and | ||
(2) property abutting a public road that is the | ||
subject of an order under Section 251.151(b) if the property is | ||
owned by the district that is subject to the order or is a public | ||
right-of-way [ |
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SECTION 4. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2011. |