Tex. Util. Code § 66.010 · Chapter 66. STATE-ISSUED CABLE AND VIDEO FRANCHISE
NONDISCRIMINATION BY MUNICIPALITY.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A municipality shall allow the holder of a state-issued certificate of franchise authority to install, construct, and maintain a communications network within a public right-of-way and shall provide the holder of a state-issued certificate of franchise authority with open, comparable, nondiscriminatory, and competitively neutral access to the public right-of-way. All use of a public right-of-way by the holder of a state-issued certificate of franchise authority is nonexclusive and subject to Section 66.011.
(b) A municipality may not discriminate against the holder of a state-issued certificate of franchise authority regarding:
(1) the authorization or placement of a communications network in a public right-of-way;
(2) access to a building; or
(3) a municipal utility pole attachment term.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., 2nd C.S., Ch. 2 (S.B. 5), Sec. 27, eff. September 7, 2005.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/UT/htm/UT.66.htm
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- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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