Bill Text: TX HB1688 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the right of a municipality to require that a certificated telecommunications utility bear the expense of relocating a utility facility.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-03 - Referred to State Affairs [HB1688 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-HB1688-Introduced.html

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82R6953 RWG-D
By: Raymond H.B. No. 1688

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the right of a municipality to require that a
certificated telecommunications utility bear the expense of
relocating a utility facility.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 54.203(c), Utilities Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(c) The governing body of a municipality may require a
certificated telecommunications utility to relocate the utility's
facility at the utility's expense to permit a public development
that increases the capacity or use of a public street, alley, road,
sidewalk, gutter, right-of-way, or public way, including a berm,
ditch, or shoulder, [the widening or straightening of a street] by:
(1) giving the utility 30 days' notice; and
(2) specifying the new location for the facility along
the right-of-way of the street.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.