Tex. Transp. Code § 281.003 · Chapter 281. ACQUISITION OF PUBLIC INTEREST IN PRIVATE ROAD BY CERTAIN COUNTIES
DEDICATION.
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Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) For purposes of this chapter, a dedication must be:
(1) an explicit voluntary grant of the use of a private road for public purposes; and
(2) communicated in writing to the commissioners court of the county in which the real property is located.
(b) An oral dedication or intent to dedicate by overt act is not sufficient to establish a public interest in a private road under this chapter.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/TN/htm/TN.281.htm
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- Composed by
- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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