Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 284.055 · Subchapter B. USE OF PUBLIC RIGHT-OF-WAY
USE OF PUBLIC RIGHT-OF-WAY AND APPLICABLE RATE.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A network provider that wants to connect a network node to the network using the public right-of-way may:
(1) install its own transport facilities subject to Subsection (b); or
(2) obtain transport service from a person that is paying municipal fees to occupy the public right-of-way that are the equivalent of not less than $28 per node per month.
(b) A network provider may not install its own transport facilities unless the provider:
(1) has a permit to use the public right-of-way; and
(2) pays to the municipality a monthly public right-of-way rate for transport facilities in an amount equal to $28 multiplied by the number of the network provider's network nodes located in the public right-of-way for which the installed transport facilities provide backhaul unless or until the time the network provider's payment of municipal fees to the municipality exceeds its monthly aggregate per-node compensation to the municipality.
(c) A public right-of-way rate required by Subsection (b) is in addition to any public right-of-way rate required by Section 284.053.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 591 (S.B. 1004), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2017.
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/LG/htm/LG.284.htm
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