Section 108.51 - Definitions In this subchapter:
(1) "Outdoor advertising" means any sign bearing a word, mark, description, or other device that is used to advertise an alcoholic beverage or the business of a person who manufactures, sells, or distributes an alcoholic beverage if the sign is displayed outside the walls or enclosure of a building or structure where a license or permit is issued or if it is displayed inside a building but within five feet of an exterior wall facing a street or highway so that it is visible by a person of ordinary vision from outside the building. "Outdoor advertising" does not include advertising appearing on radio or television, in a public vehicular conveyance for hire, on a race car while participating at a professional racing event or at a permanent motorized racetrack facility, on a boat participating in a racing event or a boat show, on an aircraft, on a bicycle or on the clothing of a member of a bicycle team participating in an organized bicycle race, or in a newspaper, magazine, or other literary publication published periodically. For the purpose of this definition the word "sign," with respect to a retailer, does not include an identifying label affixed to a container as authorized by law or to a card or certificate of membership in an association or organization if the card or certificate is not larger than 80 square inches.(2) "Billboard" means a structure directly attached to the land, a house, or a building having one or more spaces used to display a sign or advertisement of an alcoholic beverage or a person engaged in the manufacture, sale, or distribution of alcoholic beverages, whether or not the structure is artificially lighted. "Billboard" does not include a bench or a wall or other part of a structure used as a building, fence, screen, front, or barrier.(3) "Electric sign" means a structure or device other than an illuminated billboard by which artificial light produced by electricity is used to advertise the alcoholic beverage business by a person who manufactures, sells, or distributes alcoholic beverages or to advertise an alcoholic beverage.Tex. Alco. Bev. Code § 108.51
Amended by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1310, Sec. 1, eff. 6/20/1997.Amended by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 934, Sec. 87, eff. 9/1/1993Amended by Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 268, Sec. 1, eff. 6/5/1987Amended by Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 51, Sec. 1, eff. 8/26/1985Amended by Acts 1979, 66th Leg., p. 500, ch. 231, Sec. 1, eff. 8/27/1979 Acts 1977, 65th Leg., p. 520, ch. 194, Sec. 1, eff. 9/1/1977.