Tex. Transportation Code § 394.022: ISSUANCE OF PERMIT.

(a) The commission shall issue a permit to a person:

(1) whose application complies with commission rule;

(2) whose sign, if erected, would comply with the requirements of this chapter; and

(3) who, if the off-premise sign is located within the jurisdiction of a municipality with a population of more than 1.9 million that is exercising its authority to regulate off-premise signs, has obtained a permit for the off-premise sign.

(b) Subsection (a)(3) does not apply to the relocation of an off-premise sign to another location if the construction, reconstruction, or expansion of a highway requires the removal of the off-premise sign.

Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.

Amended by:

Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1083 (H.B. 2944), Sec. 3, eff. September 1, 2007.