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Counties and County Commissioners Courts; Roads and Bridges; Public Utilities

JC-0238

Texas Attorney General Opinion

Right-of-way, county's authority to permit public utilities to use does not entail authority to permit third parties to use for private benefit|Right-of-way, whether county may permit third party to place water lines on will depend either on scope of easement's grant or uses by which prescriptive easement gained, and whether use constitutes additional burden on land

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