{"data":{"id":"us-tx/tex.-utilities-code-121.202","jurisdiction":"us-tx","citation":"Tex. Utilities Code § 121.202","heading":"MUNICIPAL AND COUNTY AUTHORITY.","body":"(a) A municipality or a county may not adopt or enforce an ordinance that establishes a safety standard or practice applicable to a facility that is regulated under this subchapter, another state law, or a federal law.\n(b) Except as provided by Subsection (a) and by Section 121.2025, this subchapter does not reduce, limit, or impair:\n(1) a power vested by law in:\n(A) a county in relation to a county road; or\n(B) a municipality; or\n(2) the ability of a municipality to:\n(A) adopt an ordinance that establishes conditions for mapping, inventorying, locating, or relocating pipelines over, under, along, or across a public street or alley or private residential area in the boundaries of the municipality; or\n(B) establish conditions for mapping or taking an inventory in an area in a municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction.\nActs 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 166, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.\nAmended by:\nActs 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 530 (H.B. 951), Sec. 5, eff. June 17, 2005.\nActs 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 720 (S.B. 480), Sec. 3, eff. September 1, 2005.","path":["UTILITIES CODE","TITLE 3. GAS REGULATION","SUBTITLE B. REGULATION OF TRANSPORTATION AND USE","CHAPTER 121. GAS PIPELINES","SUBCHAPTER E. PIPELINE SAFETY"],"source_url":"https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/UT/htm/UT.121.htm#121.202","current_through":"89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T01:47:45Z","sha256":"b2d641020e4e27ffe431e1a7a9854bbce66ed18cb46bf61235461004361cea83","source_id":"us-tx","stale":false,"prev":"us-tx/tex.-utilities-code-121.2015","next":"us-tx/tex.-utilities-code-121.2025"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}