(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 (H.B. 2019), Sec. 1.06, eff. April 1, 2007.
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