2025 Texas Statutes
Utilities Code
Title 4 - Delivery of Utility Services
Subtitle B - Provisions Regulating Delivery of Services
Chapter 181 - Miscellaneous Powers and Duties of Utilities
Subchapter E. Provisions Applying to Telephone and Telegraph Corporations
Section 181.084. Appropriation or Condemnation of Land

Universal Citation:
TX Util § 181.084 (2025)
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Sec. 181.084. APPROPRIATION OR CONDEMNATION OF LAND. A telephone or telegraph corporation has the right to:

(1) appropriate as much land owned by a private person or a corporation as is necessary to construct a facility; or

(2) condemn land to acquire a right-of-way or other interest in the land for the use of the telephone or telegraph corporation.

Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 166, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.

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