TITLE: Relating to sign regulations applicable to certain signs in an area annexed by the municipality.

SUMMARY: Relating to sign regulations applicable to certain signs in an area annexed by the municipality.

FULL TEXT:
AN ACT relating to sign regulations applicable to certain signs in an area annexed by the municipality. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 216, Local Government Code, is amended by adding Section 216.904 to read as follows: Sec. 216.904. CERTAIN SIGNS IN AREA ANNEXED BY MUNICIPALITY. (a) This section applies only in a county with a population of more than two million that is adjacent to a county with a population of more than one million. (b) A municipal ordinance or a state statute regulating off-premise signs may not require the relocation, reconstruction, or removal of a sign that: (1) is located: (A) in an area of the municipality that was annexed after the sign was originally constructed; and (B) adjacent to a highway or proposed highway for which an environmental impact statement was required; and (2) was originally constructed before the final environmental impact statement for the highway was completed. SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.