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Tex. Local Government Code § 284.301: LOCAL POLICE-POWER-BASED REGULATIONS.
Where this section sits in the code
- LOCAL GOVERNMENT CODE
- TITLE 9. PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS
- SUBTITLE A. MUNICIPAL PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS
- CHAPTER 284. DEPLOYMENT OF NETWORK NODES IN PUBLIC RIGHT-OF-WAY
- SUBCHAPTER G. GENERAL CONDITIONS OF ACCESS
(a) Subject to this chapter and applicable federal and state law, a municipality may continue to exercise zoning, land use, planning, and permitting authority in the municipality's boundaries, including with respect to utility poles.
(b) A municipality may exercise that authority to impose police-power-based regulations for the management of the public right-of-way that apply to all persons subject to the municipality.
(c) A municipality may impose police-power-based regulations in the management of the activities of network providers in the public right-of-way only to the extent that the regulations are reasonably necessary to protect the health, safety, and welfare of the public.
Added by Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 591 (S.B. 1004), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2017.
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