Texas 2025 - 89th Regular

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1	1	89R16324 CXP-F
2	2	By: Zaffirini S.B. No. 2344
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7	7	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
8	8	AN ACT
9	9	relating to the placement of telephone corporation facilities in
10	10	the right-of-way of certain county roads.
11	11	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
12	12	SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 181, Utilities Code, is
13	13	amended by adding Section 181.0821 to read as follows:
14	14	Sec. 181.0821. REGULATION BY CERTAIN COUNTIES. (a) This
15	15	section applies only to a county with a population of less than
16	16	75,000 that is located in a standard metropolitan statistical area
17	17	with a population of more than 1.5 million.
18	18	(b) A telephone corporation may install a facility of the
19	19	corporation in the right-of-way of a county road under Section
20	20	181.082 only after the corporation submits to the county and the
21	21	commissioners court of the county approves an application to use
22	22	the right-of-way for the facility, according to procedures provided
23	23	by an order adopted by the commissioners court of the county.
24	24	(c) The procedures adopted by the commissioners court of the
25	25	county:
26	26	(1) may not include procedures or forms that are
27	27	substantially different from the application procedures and forms
28	28	used for locating other utility facilities in the right-of-way of a
29	29	county road;
30	30	(2) must provide that the county, not later than the
31	31	10th business day after the date an application for use of the
32	32	right-of-way is submitted, will provide notice to the telephone
33	33	corporation that the application:
34	34	(A) is approved as filed; or
35	35	(B) must be modified to comply with location or
36	36	construction schedule requirements to reduce conflicts with county
37	37	road construction projects;
38	38	(3) must allow for resubmission of an application for
39	39	which a modification is requested under Subdivision (2)(B) not
40	40	later than the 15th day after the date the corporation receives
41	41	notice under that paragraph; and
42	42	(4) must provide that an application resubmitted under
43	43	Subdivision (3) is considered to be approved if the county does not
44	44	deny the application before the sixth business day after the date
45	45	the resubmitted application is submitted.
46	46	(d) The commissioners court of the county may require a
47	47	telephone corporation that has installed a facility in the
48	48	right-of-way of a county road under Section 181.082 to relocate the
49	49	facility at the corporation's expense to allow for the widening or
50	50	other modification of a traffic lane.
51	51	(e) To impose a requirement under Subsection (d), the
52	52	commissioners court of the county must give the telephone
53	53	corporation written notice of the requirement not later than the
54	54	45th day before the date the relocation is to be made. The notice
55	55	must identify the facility to be relocated and indicate the
56	56	location in the right-of-way where the corporation may reinstall
57	57	the facility.
58	58	(f) The telephone corporation shall pay the cost of
59	59	repairing a county road damaged by the relocation.
60	60	SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.