Tex. Transp. Code § 311.051 · Subchapter C. AUTHORITY RELATING TO RAIL TRANSPORTATION
REGULATION OF STREET RAILWAY BY TYPE A GENERAL-LAW MUNICIPALITY.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The governing body of a Type A general-law municipality may:
(1) require a street railway company to:
(A) keep the company's roads in repair;
(B) conform the area in which the company's tracks lie to the grade of the street on which they lie, if the municipality has graded the street; or
(C) take measures to provide for the safe and convenient travel of people on the street on which the company's tracks lie; or
(2) regulate the speed of vehicles that use the company's tracks.
(b) The governing body by ordinance may establish penalties to enforce a regulation adopted under this section.
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.311.htm
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- 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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