Sec. 317.003.  AUTHORITY REGARDING FACILITIES.  (a)  To decrease hazards to life or property, promote public safety or convenience, improve traffic conditions, or encourage the orderly development of the municipality, a municipality may acquire, construct, improve, enlarge, extend, maintain, repair, or replace a facility.
(b)  Activities authorized by Subsection (a) include:
(1)  removing and relocating railroad tracks, a utility line or pipe, or another improvement;
(2)  removing or demolishing a building or another improvement;
(3)  paying for damage to other property in connection with an activity described by that subsection;  or
(4)  improving a street in connection with an activity described by that subsection.
Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 227, Sec. 24, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.