Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 315.002 · Chapter 315. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS RELATING TO MUNICIPAL PARKS AND OTHER RECREATIONAL AND CULTURAL RESOURCES
ESTABLISHMENT OF MUNICIPAL STREETS THROUGH CERTAIN PARKS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) Unless approved by a majority of the qualified voters voting in a referendum on the question, a municipality may not establish or dedicate a thoroughfare, public street, or alley through property that:
(1) is dedicated or used for park purposes; and
(2) includes land owned by the state on which is situated one or more buildings in the construction of which the state has expended at least $50,000.
(b) A municipality may, without an election, maintain driveways through the land described by Subsection (a) if the driveways are for park purposes only and are not for use as general thoroughfares.
(c) This section does not apply to the campus of an educational institution or to the grounds of an eleemosynary institution.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 149, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1987.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/LG/htm/LG.315.htm
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