Tex. Spec. Dist. Local Laws Code § 3843.151 · Subchapter D. PUBLIC TRANSIT SYSTEM AND PARKING FACILITIES
PUBLIC TRANSIT SYSTEM; PETITION REQUIRED.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The district may acquire, lease as lessor or lessee, construct, develop, own, operate, and maintain a public transit system to serve the area within the boundaries of the district.
(b) Before the district may act under Subsection (a), a petition must be filed with the district requesting the action with regard to a public transit system. The petition must be signed by owners of property representing a majority of either the total assessed value or the area of the real property in the district that abuts the right-of-way in which the public transit system is proposed to be located. The determination of a majority is based on the property owners along the entire right-of-way of the proposed transit project and may not be calculated on a block-by-block basis.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 769 (H.B. 3518), Sec. 1, eff. June 17, 2005.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/SD/htm/SD.3843.htm
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