Tex. Transp. Code § 228.201 · Subchapter E. LIMITATION ON TOLL FACILITY DESIGNATION; CONVERSION OF NONTOLLED STATE HIGHWAY
LIMITATION ON TOLL FACILITY DESIGNATION.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The department may not operate a nontolled state highway or a segment of a nontolled state highway as a toll project, and may not transfer a highway or segment to another entity for operation as a toll project, unless:
(1) the commission by order designated the highway or segment as a toll project before the contract to construct the highway or segment was awarded;
(2) the project was designated as a toll project in a plan or program of a metropolitan planning organization on or before September 1, 2005;
(3) the highway or segment is reconstructed so that the number of nontolled lanes on the highway or segment is greater than or equal to the number in existence before the reconstruction; or
(4) a facility is constructed adjacent to the highway or segment so that the number of nontolled lanes on the converted highway or segment and the adjacent facility together is greater than or equal to the number in existence on the converted highway or segment before the conversion.
(b) Repealed by Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 533 (S.B. 312), Sec. 74(2), eff. September 1, 2017.
(c) In determining the number of nontolled lanes required to comply with Subsection (a)(3), the department:
(1) may consider only a general-purpose lane that is part of the highway; and
(2) may not consider a lane of a frontage road to be a nontolled lane before or after reconstruction of the highway.
(d) The department may not operate any part of State Highway 255 in Webb County as a toll project.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 281 (H.B. 2702), Sec. 2.45, eff. June 14, 2005.
Amended by:
Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 1186 (S.B. 1029), Sec. 1, eff. June 14, 2013.
Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 533 (S.B. 312), Sec. 37, eff. September 1, 2017.
Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 533 (S.B. 312), Sec. 74(2), eff. September 1, 2017.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/TN/htm/TN.228.htm
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Cited by 4 provisions
Provisions in this library whose text cites Tex. Transp. Code § 228.201. Each shows the citation as that text prints it.
Transportation Code
- Tex. Transp. Code § 228.007TOLL LANES.Printed as Section 228.201
- Tex. Transp. Code § 228.051DESIGNATION.Printed as Section 228.201
- Tex. Transp. Code § 366.169ACQUISITION OF RIGHTS IN PUBLIC REAL PROPERTY.Printed as Section 228.201
- Tex. Transp. Code § 370.168ACQUISITION OF RIGHTS IN PUBLIC REAL PROPERTY.Printed as Section 228.201
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