TITLE: Relating to regulation by a municipality or county of off-premise signs advertising sexually oriented businesses.

SUMMARY: Relating to regulation by a municipality or county of off-premise signs advertising sexually oriented businesses.

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