Tex. Elec. Code § 259.001 · Chapter 259. POLITICAL SIGNS
NOTICE REQUIREMENT ON POLITICAL ADVERTISING SIGNS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The following notice must be written on each political advertising sign:
"NOTICE: IT IS A VIOLATION OF STATE LAW (CHAPTERS 392 AND 393, TRANSPORTATION CODE), TO PLACE THIS SIGN IN THE RIGHT-OF-WAY OF A HIGHWAY."
(b) A person commits an offense if the person:
(1) knowingly enters into a contract to print or make a political advertising sign that does not contain the notice required by Subsection (a); or
(2) instructs another person to place a political advertising sign that does not contain the notice required by Subsection (a).
(c) An offense under this section is a Class C misdemeanor.
(d) It is an exception to the application of Subsection (b) that the political advertising sign was printed or made before September 1, 1997, and complied with Subsection (a) as it existed immediately before that date.
(e) In this section, "political advertising sign" means a written form of political advertising designed to be seen from a road but does not include a bumper sticker.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 288, Sec. 5, eff. Sept. 1, 1991. Amended by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1134, Sec. 10, eff. Sept. 1, 1997; Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1349, Sec. 71, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.
Transferred and redesignated from Election Code, Section 255.007 by Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 824 (H.B. 2554), Sec. 2, eff. September 1, 2019.
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/EL/htm/EL.259.htm
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