Tex. Transp. Code § 313.001 · Subchapter A. GENERAL PROVISIONS
DEFINITIONS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
In this chapter:
(1) "Cost" includes an expense of engineering and other expense incident to construction of an improvement.
(2) "Governing body" means the governing body of a municipality.
(3) "Highway" includes any part of a street, alley, public place, or square, including a part left wholly or partly unimproved in connection with another street improvement.
(4) "Improvement" includes the following, liberally construed:
(A) filling, grading, raising, paving, or repairing a highway in a permanent manner;
(B) constructing, realigning, or repairing a curb, gutter, or sidewalk;
(C) widening, narrowing, or straightening a highway; and
(D) an appurtenance or incidental to an improvement, including a drain or culvert.
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.313.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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