Bill Text: TX HB3792 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to municipal authority to regulate gas pipelines located within the municipality.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-04-06 - Left pending in committee [HB3792 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB3792-Introduced.html
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By: Burnam | H.B. No. 3792 |
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relating to municipal authority to regulate gas pipelines located | ||
within the municipality. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 121.202, Utilities Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (c) to read as | ||
follows: | ||
(b) Except as provided by Subsection (a) and by Section | ||
121.2025, this subchapter does not reduce, limit, or impair: | ||
(1) a power vested by law in: | ||
(A) a county in relation to a county road; or | ||
(B) a municipality; or | ||
(2) the ability of a municipality to establish | ||
conditions for mapping or taking an inventory of pipelines and | ||
related appurtenances, including pumps, compressors, separators, | ||
dehydration units, and tank batteries, located in an area in the | ||
municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction. | ||
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conditions for mapping, inventorying, locating, or relocating | ||
pipelines and related appurtenances, including pumps, compressors, | ||
separators, dehydration units, and tank batteries, located within | ||
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SECTION 2. Section 181.006, Utilities Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
Sec. 181.006. CONSENT REQUIRED IN MUNICIPALITY. A gas | ||
corporation may exercise authority under Sections 181.004 and | ||
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the consent of and subject to the direction of the governing body of | ||
the municipality. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2011. |