Local Government Code § 241.019

Sec. 241.019. NONCONFORMING USES AND STRUCTURES. Except as provided by Section 241.035, airport zoning regulations may not require: (1) changes in nonconforming land use existing on the date of the adoption of the regulations; (2) the removal, lowering, or other change of a structure that does not conform to the regulations on the date of their adoption, including all phases or elements of a multiphase structure, regardless of whether actual construction has commenced, that received a determination of no hazard by the Federal Aviation Administration under 14 C.F.R., Part 77, before the regulations were adopted; (3) the removal, lowering, or other change of an object of natural growth that does not conform to the regulations on the date of their adoption; or (4) any other interference in the continuation of a use that does not conform to the regulations on the date of their adoption. Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 149, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1987.