• ♦Manual Notice 2023-1
• ►1. Utility Policy
  • ►1. Overview
    • ♦Introduction to Use of Right of Way by Others
    • ♦Purpose of this Chapter
    • ♦Definitions
  • ►2. Authority for Installation on Highway Right of Way
    • ♦Rights Under Existing Laws
    • ♦Additional Guidelines
    • ♦Additional Guidelines For Oil and Gas Lines
    • ♦Broadband Accommodation Process
  • ►3. Utility Installation Request Forms
    • ♦Requirement of Utility Installation Request Forms
    • ♦Requirements for "Notice" Side of Form
    • ♦Additional Requirements for High Pressure Pipelines
    • ♦Special Provisions
    • ♦Review and Approval of Utility Notice Forms
    • ♦Review and Approval of Utility Notice Forms
  • ►4. Drawing for Utility Installation Request Forms
    • ♦Requirements for Drawing
    • ♦Underground Installations
    • ♦Requirements for Manholes
    • ♦Bore Pits or Trenches in the Median
  • ►5. Utility Lines on Bridges
    • ♦Attachments to Structures
  • ►6. Other Utility Topics
    • ♦Utility Bridges
    • ♦Utilities for Highway Facilities
    • ♦Accommodation of Large Communication Equipment Housings on Highway Right of Way
    • ♦Accommodation of Utility Facilities on Federal-Aid Freeways
• ►2. Uses of Right of Way (Long Term)
  • ►1. Overview
    • ♦Summary
  • ►2. Mailboxes
    • ♦Department Policy on Mailbox Supports
    • ♦Installation Requirements
    • ♦Mailbox Installations Inside City Corporate Limits
    • ♦Placement of Installations
    • ♦Newspaper Delivery Tubes
    • ♦Installations Requiring Numerous Mailboxes
    • ♦County Road Homeowners
    • ♦Removal of Mailboxes
  • ►3. Multiple Use Agreements
    • ♦Multiple Use Policy
    • ♦Execution of Multiple Use Agreements
    • ♦Authority
  • ►4. Passes and Cattleguards
    • ♦Definitions
    • ♦Policy
    • ♦Methods of Securing a Pass or Cattleguard
    • ♦Construction and Maintenance Responsibility
    • ♦Permit Forms
    • ♦Authority
  • ►5. Lease of Right of Way
    • ♦Requirements
    • ♦For More Information
  • ►6. Access Driveways
    • ♦General Access Driveway Policy
    • ♦Driveway Permit for Mineral Interest
  • ►7. Historical Markers
    • ♦Types of Markers
    • ♦Relocation of Historical Markers
    • ♦Guidelines for Maintaining Historical Markers
    • ♦Cleaning Stone Markers
    • ♦Repairs
    • ♦Replacement Parts
    • ♦Aluminum Markers
  • ♦8. Wastewater Discharges
  • ►9. Roadside Maintenance Agreements
    • ♦Landscape Maintenance Agreements
    • ♦Picnic Area Maintenance Agreements
• ►3. Uses of Right of Way (Temporary)
  • ►1. Overview
    • ♦Introduction
  • ►2. Vendors on the Right of Way
    • ♦Purpose of Section
    • ♦Policy
    • ♦Application
  • ►3. Authorized Signs on the Right of Way
    • ♦Policy for Temporary Signs for Special Events
    • ♦Sign Requirements and Restrictions
    • ♦Application
    • ♦Policy for Use of Highway Right of Way for Permanent Signs Attached to a Building Outside the Right of Way
    • ♦Requirements and Restrictions for Encroaching Permanent Signs
  • ►4. Illegal Signs on the Right of Way
    • ♦Policy
    • ♦Political Signs
    • ♦Regulated Sign
    • ♦Sign Removal
    • ♦Storage of Removed Signs
    • ♦Notification of Removal
    • ♦Notice to Immediately Remove a Sign
    • ♦Removal Costs
    • ♦Retrieval of Signs by the Owners
    • ♦Disposal of Signs
    • ♦Record Keeping
  • ►5. Closures of State Right of Way
    • ♦Policy
    • ♦Incorporated Agreement
    • ♦Unincorporated Agreement
    • ♦Guidelines
  • ►6. Filming/Video Production on State Right of Way
    • ♦Policy
  • ►7. Coffee Rest Stops
    • ♦Policy
    • ♦Approval of Operation
    • ♦Location of Coffee Rest Stops
    • ♦Prohibition of Solicitation
    • ♦Signs
    • ♦Handouts
    • ♦Responsibilities of the Department and Sponsoring Organization
  • ►8. Petroleum or Hazardous Substance Investigation and/or Remediation Agreements
    • ♦Policy
    • ♦State Lead Investigation or Remediation
    • ♦State Lead Agreement
    • ♦Investigation and/or Remediation by a Private Party
    • ♦Agreement for Access
  • ►9. Highway Crossing Agreements
    • ♦Policy
    • ♦Agreement
    • ♦Bond
  • ►10. Memorial Markers Within the Right of Way
    • ♦Guidelines
    • ♦Qualifications
    • ♦Placement
    • ♦Fabrication and Materials
    • ♦Hazardous or Non-Conforming Markers
    • ♦Sketch of Typical Marker
    • ♦Memorial Sign Program for Victims of Impaired Driving
    • ♦Memorial Sign Program for Victims of Motorcycle Crashes
    • ♦Memorial Marker for Peace Officers
  • ►11. Mowing and Baling Hay on Highway Right of Way
    • ♦Overview
    • ♦Permission to Mow or Bale
    • ♦Grazing Restrictions
    • ♦Letter of Agreement for Mowing and/or Baling Hay
  • ►12. Agricultural Use Agreements
    • ♦Policy
    • ♦Terms of Agreement
    • ♦Execution of Form 2047
  • ►13. Debris on Private Property
    • ♦General Overview
    • ♦Exceptions
  • ►14. Temporary Utility Installations
    • ♦Temporary Utility Installation Form 1082-T
  • ►15. Geophysical Surveys
    • ♦Background
    • ♦Requirements
  • ♦16. Agreement for Access to Texas Department of Transportation Highway Right of Way

Use of Right of Way by Others Manual

July 2023

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