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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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AN ACT
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relating to regulation by a municipality or county of off-premise |
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signs advertising sexually oriented businesses. |
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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SECTION 1. Chapter 243, Local Government Code, is amended |
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by adding Section 243.012 to read as follows: |
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Sec. 243.012. REGULATION OF SEXUALLY ORIENTED BUSINESS |
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ADVERTISING. A municipality by ordinance or a county by order may |
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regulate the location of off-premise signs, as that term is defined |
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by Section 216.002, advertising a sexually oriented business by: |
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(1) requiring those signs to be located in a |
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particular area of the municipality or county; or |
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(2) prohibiting those signs from being located within |
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a certain distance from a land use that the governing body of the |
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municipality or county finds to be inconsistent with sexually |
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oriented business advertising, including: |
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(A) a school; |
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(B) a place of worship; |
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(C) a residential neighborhood; or |
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(D) an interstate highway, a United States |
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highway, or a state highway. |
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SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. |