Sec. 181.089. MUNICIPAL REGULATION. (a) The appropriate authorities of a municipality through which a line of a telephone or telegraph corporation is to pass may adopt, by ordinance or another method, regulations governing the corporation that specify the:
(1) location of the facilities of the corporation;
(2) kind of posts that must be used by the corporation; or
(3) height at which the wires of the corporation must be placed.
(b) After the construction of the telephone or telegraph line, the appropriate authorities of the municipality, after giving the corporation or its agents an opportunity to be heard, may direct any change in:
(1) the construction or location of the facilities; or
(2) the height at which the corporation must locate the wires.
Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 166, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.
Structure Texas Statutes
Title 4 - Delivery of Utility Services
Subtitle B - Provisions Regulating Delivery of Services
Chapter 181 - Miscellaneous Powers and Duties of Utilities
Subchapter E. Provisions Applying to Telephone and Telegraph Corporations
Section 181.082. Authority to Install Facility in Relation to Public Property
Section 181.083. Authority to Construct Line on Private Property
Section 181.084. Appropriation or Condemnation of Land
Section 181.085. Prohibition on Land Contract Excluding Another Telegraph Utility
Section 181.086. Lines in or Outside State
Section 181.087. Use of Another's Telegraph Line