Facilities For Water Transportation and Distribution

Sec. 8104.202. FACILITIES FOR WATER TRANSPORTATION AND DISTRIBUTION. (a) The authority may construct, maintain, and operate a canal, lateral, ditch, levee, pipeline, or other facility to transport and distribute water, together with a service road or other facility incidental to or designed for use in connection with transportation and distribution of water, under, along, and across a: (1) railroad; (2) railroad right-of-way; (3) canal; (4) stream; (5) pipeline; (6) utility line; (7) street or alley in a municipality, subject to reasonable regulation by the municipality; or (8) public road or highway. (b) In crossing a facility described by Subsection (a), the authority: (1) may not impair the use of the facility; and (2) shall promptly restore the facility to its former condition of usefulness. Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 729 (H.B. 2019), Sec. 1.06, eff. April 1, 2007.