Bill Text: TX SB1383 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Comm Sub

Texas Senate Bill 1383 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relating to requiring municipalities to reimburse the Texas Department of Transportation for compensation paid for certain signs required to be relocated due to road construction.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-05-20 - Not again placed on intent calendar [SB1383 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-SB1383-Comm_Sub.html



	By: Hancock	S.B. No. 1383
	(In the Senate - Filed March 7, 2013; March 19, 2013, read
	first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
	Relations; April 29, 2013, reported adversely, with favorable
	Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 4, Nays 1;
	April 29, 2013, sent to printer.)

	COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1383	By: Nichols


	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT

	relating to requiring municipalities to reimburse the Texas
	Department of Transportation for compensation paid for certain
	signs required to be relocated due to road construction.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 216, Local Government
	Code, is amended by adding Section 216.016 to read as follows:
	Sec. 216.016. COSTS OF REMOVAL DUE TO ROAD CONSTRUCTION.
	(a) If a sign located in a municipality is required to be removed
	because of the widening, construction, or reconstruction of a road
	by the Texas Department of Transportation and if relocation of the
	sign in the municipality would be allowed under department rules
	but is restricted or prohibited by charter, ordinance, or a
	decision of the municipality, the municipality shall reimburse the
	department for any just compensation paid to the owner or lessee of
	the sign in a condemnation proceeding.
	(b) For purposes of this section, a sign located in the
	extraterritorial jurisdiction of a municipality is considered
	located in the municipality.
	SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
	to the removal of a sign that occurs on or after the effective date
	of this Act.
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.

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