Sec. 91.035. USE OF FACILITIES BELONGING TO PUBLIC OR PRIVATE ENTITY. (a) The department, for the purpose of acquiring, constructing, maintaining, and operating freight or passenger rail facilities and systems in this state, may:
(1) use a street, alley, road, highway, or other public way of a municipality, county, or other political subdivision with the consent of that political subdivision; and
(2) at the expense of the department, relocate, raise, reroute, or change the grade of the construction of a street, alley, highway, road, railroad, electric line and facility, telegraph and telephone property and facility, pipeline and facility, conduit and facility, and other properties, whether publicly or privately owned, as necessary or useful in the construction, maintenance, and operation of a rail facility or system.
(b) The department shall provide reasonable notice to the owner of the applicable facility of the need for the alteration under Subsection (a)(2) and allow that owner the opportunity to complete the alteration.
Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1325, Sec. 4.01, eff. June 21, 2003.
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