Tex. Transp. Code § 173.203 · Subchapter E. POWERS AND DUTIES RELATING TO ACQUISITION, CONSTRUCTION, AND OPERATION OF COMMUTER RAIL FACILITIES
USE AND ALTERATION OF PROPERTY OF ANOTHER POLITICAL SUBDIVISION.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) For a purpose described by Section 173.201, as necessary or useful in the construction, reconstruction, repair, maintenance, and operation of the system, and with the consent of a municipality, county, or other political subdivision, a district may:
(1) use streets, alleys, roads, highways, and other public ways of the political subdivision; and
(2) relocate, raise, reroute, change the grade of, or alter, at the district's expense, the construction of a publicly owned or privately owned street, alley, highway, road, railroad, electric line or facility, telegraph or telephone property or facility, pipeline or facility, conduit or facility, and other property.
(b) A district may not use or alter:
(1) a road or highway in the state highway system without the permission of the commission; or
(2) a railroad without permission of the railroad.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 85 (S.B. 1540), Sec. 2.04, eff. April 1, 2011.
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/TN/htm/TN.173.htm
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