Tex. Local Gov't Code Section 216.001
Legislative Intent


(a)

This subchapter is not intended to require a municipality to provide for the relocation, reconstruction, or removal of any sign in the municipality, nor is it intended to prohibit a municipality from requiring the relocation, reconstruction, or removal of any sign. This subchapter is intended only to authorize a municipality to take that action and to establish the procedure by which the municipality may do so.

(b)

This subchapter is not intended to require a municipality to make a cash payment to compensate the owner of a sign that the municipality requires to be relocated, reconstructed, or removed. Cash payment is established as only one of several methods from which a municipality may choose in compensating the owner of a sign.

(c)

This subchapter is not intended to affect any eminent domain proceeding in which the taking of a sign is only an incidental part of the exercise of the eminent domain power.
Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 149, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1987.

Source: Section 216.001 — Legislative Intent, https://statutes.­capitol.­texas.­gov/Docs/LG/htm/LG.­216.­htm#216.­001 (accessed Mar. 23, 2024).

Accessed:
Mar. 23, 2024

§ 216.001’s source at texas​.gov