{"data":{"id":"us-tx/tex.-local-government-code-216.001","jurisdiction":"us-tx","citation":"Tex. Local Government Code § 216.001","heading":"LEGISLATIVE INTENT.","body":"(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.\n(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.\n(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.\nActs 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 149, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1987.","path":["LOCAL GOVERNMENT CODE","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"],"source_url":"https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/LG/htm/LG.216.htm#216.001","current_through":"89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T01:47:27Z","sha256":"58e2847f78785ab1e05f1c82e659b819898ce310ea19f73eaf3a4678cf0223e7","source_id":"us-tx","stale":false,"prev":"us-tx/tex.-local-government-code-215.075","next":"us-tx/tex.-local-government-code-216.002"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}