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62nd LEGISLATURE-2nd CALLED SESSION
(C) The Commission shall issue a permit to every person with a
license whose license application complies with the rules of the Commis-
sion adopted under Section 5 of this Act and whose sign, if erected, would
comply with this Act and rules of the Commission adopted under Section
4(B) of this Act.
(D) A permit issued to control the erection and maintenance of out-
door advertising by a political subdivision of this State within the juris-
diction of the political subdivision shall be accepted in lieu of the permit
required by this section, provided that such erection and maintenance of
outdoor advertising is in compliance with Section 5 of this Act and the
rules of the Commission adopted under Section 4(B) of this Act.
(E) All monies received by the Commission under the provisions of
this Act shall be deposited in the Treasury of the State and placed in a
special fund to be known as the "Texas Highway Beautification Fund"
which shall be used by the Commission in the administration of this Act.
Sec. 7. Exceptions
Nothing in Sections 5 and 6 of this Act is to be construed to require
any person to obtain a license or permit to erect or maintain any sign
advertising the sale or lease of the property upon which it is located;
nor is any person required to obtain a license or permit to erect or main-
tain any sign which relates solely to activities conducted on the property
upon which the sign is erected or maintained. Nothing in this Act shall
apply to any sign or marker giving information about the location of
underground electric transmission lines, telegraph or telephone properties
and facilities, pipelines, public sewers or waterlines.
Sec. 8. Official Signs
The Commission may designate and provide official signs which may
be erected and maintained within the right-of-way at appropriate dis-
tances from interchanges and appropriate locations on the interstate and
primary systems giving specific information of interest to the traveling
public, including specific brand names.
Sec. 9. Control of Junkyards and Automobile Graveyards
(A) No person shall establish, operate or maintain a junkyard or
automobile graveyard any portion of which is within 1,000 feet of the
nearest edge of the right-of-way of the interstate or primary systems,
except
(1) Those screened by natural objects, plantings, fences or other ap-
propriate means so as not to be visible from the main traveled way of the
interstate or primary systems; or
(2) Those located in areas which are zoned or unzoned industrial
areas, such areas to be determined from actual land uses and defined by
regulations established by the Commission.
(B) The Commission is authorized to screen, if possible, with natural
objects, plantings, fences or other appropriate means any junkyard or
automobile graveyard lawfully in existence if the junkyard or automobile
graveyard is within 1,000 feet of the nearest edge of the right-of-way of
the interstate or primary systems. The Commission is authorized to
acquire areas outside the highway right-of-way so that any junkyard or
automobile graveyard may be screened from the main traveled way of the
interstate or primary systems.
(C) The Commission is authorized to promulgate rules and regula-
tions governing the location, planting, construction and maintenance of
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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/m1/19/: accessed May 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.