Bill Text: TX SB1924 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to landscape control along interstate and state highway rights-of-way; imposing a criminal penalty.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-25 - Referred to Transportation [SB1924 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-SB1924-Introduced.html
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| By: Eltife | S.B. No. 1924 | |
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| relating to landscape control along interstate and state highway | ||
| rights-of-way; imposing a criminal penalty. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 392, Transportation Code, | ||
| is amended by adding Section 392.004 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 392.004. LANDSCAPE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM. (a) In this | ||
| section, "landscape management" means trimming or removing | ||
| seedlings, saplings, trees, and vegetation on the state highway | ||
| system rights-of-way as necessary to provide suitable visibility to | ||
| adjacent businesses. | ||
| (b) The commission shall establish a landscape management | ||
| program in a manner consistent with this section that shall | ||
| include: | ||
| (1) a process for submitting and approving a request | ||
| for landscape management, including appropriate fees; | ||
| (2) an appeals process for approval or denial of a | ||
| request for landscape management. | ||
| (3) a method by which the applicant may mitigate | ||
| landscape management by either providing in-kind replacement of any | ||
| vegetation removed or reimbursing the department for its value. | ||
| (c) A person may not perform landscape management unless | ||
| approved by the commission under this section. | ||
| (d) A person commits an offense if the person performs | ||
| landscape management without first obtaining approval of the | ||
| commission under this section. An offense under this subsection is | ||
| a Class C misdemeanor. | ||
| (e) The commission may adopt rules necessary to implement | ||
| this section. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all 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, 2015. | ||
