81R10487 JJT-F
By: Williams S.B. No. 2059
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the use of a public right-of-way by a telephone or
telegraph corporation.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 181, Utilities Code, is
amended by adding Section 181.090 to read as follows:
Sec. 181.090. RELOCATION OF LINES FOR ROAD IMPROVEMENTS.
(a) The Texas Transportation Commission or the commissioners court
of a county may require a telephone or telegraph corporation to
relocate, at the corporation's expense, a line of the corporation
to allow for:
(1) widening a right-of-way;
(2) changing a traffic lane;
(3) improving a road bed; or
(4) improving a drainage ditch located on a
right-of-way.
(b) The authority of the Texas Transportation Commission
under this section is limited to a line of a telephone or telegraph
corporation that is located on a state highway and not in the
corporate limits of a municipality.
(c) The authority of a commissioners court of a county under
this section is limited to a line of a telephone or telegraph
corporation that is located on a county road and not in the
corporate limits of a municipality.
SECTION 2. Section 181.090, Utilities Code, as added by
this Act, applies only to a project to widen a right-of-way, change
a traffic lane, improve a road bed, or improve a drainage ditch on a
right-of-way that is begun on or after the effective date of this
Act.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.