Sec. 216.001. LEGISLATIVE INTENT. (a) This subchapter is not intended to require a municipality to provide for the relocation, reconstruction, or removal of any sign in the municipality, nor is it intended to prohibit a municipality from requiring the relocation, reconstruction, or removal of any sign. This subchapter is intended only to authorize a municipality to take that action and to establish the procedure by which the municipality may do so.
(b) This subchapter is not intended to require a municipality to make a cash payment to compensate the owner of a sign that the municipality requires to be relocated, reconstructed, or removed. Cash payment is established as only one of several methods from which a municipality may choose in compensating the owner of a sign.
(c) This subchapter is not intended to affect any eminent domain proceeding in which the taking of a sign is only an incidental part of the exercise of the eminent domain power.
Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 149, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1987.
Structure Texas Statutes
Title 7 - Regulation of Land Use, Structures, Businesses, and Related Activities
Subtitle A - Municipal Regulatory Authority
Chapter 216 - Regulation of Signs by Municipalities
Subchapter A. Relocation, Reconstruction, or Removal of Sign
Section 216.001. Legislative Intent
Section 216.003. Municipal Regulation
Section 216.004. Municipal Board
Section 216.005. Determination of Amount of Compensation
Section 216.006. Compensation for Relocated Sign
Section 216.007. Compensation for Reconstructed Sign
Section 216.008. Compensation for Removal of Off-Premise Sign
Section 216.009. Compensation for Removal of On-Premise Sign
Section 216.010. Method of Compensation
Section 216.011. Tax Appraisal of Property With Nonconforming Sign
Section 216.012. Special Provisions for Signs Under Sign Ordinance in Effect on June 1, 1985