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CC Resolution No. 399 RESOLUTION NO. 399 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BAYTOWN , TEXAS, THAT THE CITY DESIRES FOR THE STATE TO ADMINISTER THE TEXAS HIGHWAY BEAUTIFICATION ACT WITHIN THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF THE CITY OF BAYTOWN. WHEREAS, the Sixty-Second Legislature recently passed the Texas Highway Beautification Act authorizing the Texas Highway Commission to provide for the control and regulation of outdoor advertising and certain junkyards and auto- mobile graveyards and for the preservation and enhancement of scenic beauty of land bordering certain public highways ; and WHEREAS, although the Act covers all of the above mentioned subjects , the Texas Highway Department is concerned at this time with only the control and regulation of outdoor advertising signs ; and WHEREAS, an agreement between the Highway Commission and the Secretary of Transportation for the control of advertising signs within zoned and unzoned commercial and industrial areas has been executed giving political subdivisions the option of administration of the Act within its corporate limits , or allowing the State to administer the Act; NOW THEREFORE , BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BAYTOWN , TEXAS : Section 1 : That it is the desire of the City of Baytown that the State of Texas administer the Texas Highway Beautification Act within the corporate limits of the City of Baytown. Section 2: This resolution shall take effect from and after its passage by the City Council . INTRODUCED, READ and PASSED by the affirmative vote of the City Council of the City of Baytown this 6th day of July 1972. C. GLEN WALKER, Mayor ATTEST: EDNA LIVER, City Clerk APPROVED: 44 NEEL RICHARDSON, City Attorney -2-