♦Manual Notice 2023-1
►1. Utility Policy
▼2. Uses of Right of Way (Long Term)
- ►1. Overview
  - ♦Summary
- ►2. 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
- ►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
- ►9. Highway Crossing Agreements
  - ♦Policy
  - ♦Agreement
  - ♦Bond
- ►10. Memorial Markers Within the Right of Way
- ►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

Chapter 2: Uses of Right of Way (Long Term)

Anchor: #i1000841

Section 1: Overview

Summary

Any use of TxDOT right of way needs to be controlled and monitored by the division to ensure the safety of highway users. Mailboxes, non-departmental signs, multiple use agreements, stockpasses and cattleguards, and access driveways should be controlled by the maintenance manager.