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 , Sec. 1.06, eff. April 1, 2007.