Tex. Transportation Code § 311.002: GENERAL AUTHORITY OF GENERAL-LAW MUNICIPALITY.

(a) A general-law municipality has exclusive control over the highways, streets, and alleys of the municipality.

(b) The municipality may:

(1) abate or remove an encroachment or obstruction on a highway, street, or alley;

(2) open, change, regulate, or improve a street; or

(3) put a drain or sewer in a street, prevent the obstruction of the drain or sewer, or protect the drain or sewer from encroachment or damage.

(c) To carry out its powers under this section, the municipality may:

(1) regulate or change the grade of land; and

(2) require that the grade of land be raised by filling an area.

Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.