General and Special Laws of The State of Texas Passed By The Second, Third and Fourth Called Sessions of the Sixty-Second Legislature and the Regular Session of the Sixty-Third Legislature Page: 15
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TEXAS SESSION LAWS 1972
GENERAL AND SPECIAL
Sixty-Second Legislature, Second Called Session
HIGHWAY BEAUTIFICATION ACT
CHAPTER 1 1
S. B. No. 3
An Act providing for the preservation and enhancement of scenic beauty of lands
bordering certain public highways; providing for the control and regulation
of outdoor advertising and certain Junkyards and automobile graveyards by
the Texas Highway Commission; providing for the acquisition and disposal
of property for the purposes of this Act by the Texas Highway Cmmission;
providing for the establishment of a Texas Highway Beautification Fund In
the State Treasury; providing penalties; providing for appropriations; and
declaring an emergency.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas:
Section 1. Short Title
This Act may be cited as the Highway Beautification Act.
Sec. 2. Definitions
In this Act, unless the context requires a different definition
(A) "Commission" means the Texas Highway Commission;
(B) "Interstate System" means that portion of the national system of
interstate and defense highways located within this State which now or
hereafter may be designated officially by the Commission and approved
pursuant to Title 23, United States Code;
(C) "Primary System" means that portion of connected main high-
ways located within this State which now or hereafter may be designated
officially by the Commission and approved pursuant to Title 23, United
States Code;
(D) "Outdoor Advertising" or "Sign" includes any outdoor sign, dis-
play, light, device, figure, painting, drawing, message, plaque, poster, bill-
board, or other thing which is designed, intended, or used to advertise or
inform, if any part of the advertising or information contents is visible
from any place on the main traveled way of the interstate or primary
systems;
(E) "Junk" means old or scrap copper, brass, rope, rags, batteries,
paper, trash, rubber, debris, waste, or junked, dismantled, or wrecked
1. Vernon's Ann.Civ.St. art. 6674v-1.
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Texas. Legislature. General and Special Laws of The State of Texas Passed By The Second, Third and Fourth Called Sessions of the Sixty-Second Legislature and the Regular Session of the Sixty-Third Legislature, legislative document, 1973; [Austin, Texas]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth221792/m1/16/: accessed May 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.