A telegraph corporation may not contract with an owner of land for the right to construct and maintain a telegraph line over the land to the exclusion of the line of another telegraph corporation.
Tex. Util. Code § 181.085
PROHIBITION ON LAND CONTRACT EXCLUDING ANOTHER TELEGRAPH UTILITY
Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 166, Sec. 1, eff
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