Section 284.301 - Local Police-Power-Based Regulations(a) Subject to this chapter and applicable federal and state law, a municipality may continue to exercise zoning, land use, planning, and permitting authority in the municipality's boundaries, including with respect to utility poles.(b) A municipality may exercise that authority to impose police-power-based regulations for the management of the public right-of-way that apply to all persons subject to the municipality.(c) A municipality may impose police-power-based regulations in the management of the activities of network providers in the public right-of-way only to the extent that the regulations are reasonably necessary to protect the health, safety, and welfare of the public.Tex. Loc. Gov't. Code § 284.301
Added by Acts 2017, Texas Acts of the 85th Leg. - Regular Session, ch. 591,Sec. 1, eff. 9/1/2017.