Texas Natural Resources Code
§ 61.132 — CLOSING OF BEACHES FOR SPACE FLIGHT ACTIVITIES
NR § 61.132Title 2. PUBLIC DOMAIN · Part E. BEACHES AND DUNES · Ch. 61. USE AND MAINTENANCE OF PUBLIC BEACHES · Art. D. COUNTY REGULATION OF PUBLIC USE OF BEACHES
Statute text
View on source(a)This section applies only to a county bordering on the Gulf of Mexico or its tidewater limits that contains a launch site the construction and operation of which have been approved in a record of decision issued by the Federal Aviation Administration following the preparation of an environmental impact statement by that administration.
(b)A person planning to conduct a launch in a county to which this section applies must submit to the commissioners court proposed primary and backup launch dates for the launch.
(c)To protect the public health, safety, and welfare, the commissioners court by order may temporarily close a beach in reasonable proximity to the launch site or access points to the beach in the county on a primary or backup launch date, subject to Subsection (d).
(d)The commissioners court may not close a beach or access points to the beach on a primary launch date consisting of any of the following days without the approval of the land office:
(1)the Saturday or Sunday preceding Memorial Day;
(2)Memorial Day;
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Legislative history
Added by Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 152 (H.B. 2623), Sec. 3, eff. May 24, 2013.