TITLE: Relating to requiring the use of display timers with certain traffic-control signals.

SUMMARY: Relating to requiring the use of display timers with certain traffic-control signals.

FULL TEXT:
AN ACT relating to requiring the use of display timers with certain traffic-control signals. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Section 707.003, Transportation Code, is amended by adding Subsection (i) to read as follows: (i) A local authority shall install a timer at each intersection at which a photographic traffic signal enforcement system is in active use that displays the number of seconds that remain before the traffic-control signal changes. The timer must be easily readable to any operator approaching the intersection with illuminated numbers not less than 12 inches high. SECTION 2. A municipality or a local authority, as defined by Section 541.002, Transportation Code, shall ensure that a photographic traffic signal enforcement system that was installed by the municipality or local authority before the effective date of this Act complies with this Act not later than September 1, 2012. SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.