1. (a) A municipality or a county may not adopt or enforce an ordinance that establishes a safety standard or practice applicable to a facility that is regulated under this subchapter, another state law, or a federal law.

2. (b) Except as provided by Subsection (a) and by Section 121.2025, this subchapter does not reduce, limit, or impair:

   1. (1) a power vested by law in:

      1. (A) a county in relation to a county road; or
      2. (B) a municipality; or

   2. (2) the ability of a municipality to:

      1. (A) adopt an ordinance that establishes conditions for mapping, inventorying, locating, or relocating pipelines over, under, along, or across a public street or alley or private residential area in the boundaries of the municipality; or
      2. (B) establish conditions for mapping or taking an inventory in an area in a municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction.

Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 166, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.

Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 530 (H.B. 951), Sec. 5, eff. June 17, 2005.

Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 720 (S.B. 480), Sec. 3, eff. September 1, 2005.