Tex. Transp. Code § 342.001 · Subchapter A. GOVERNMENT-OWNED FERRIES
FERRY CONNECTING STATE HIGHWAYS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The department may purchase, construct, maintain, operate, or control a ferry that crosses:
(1) a bay, arm, channel, or saltwater lake emptying into the Gulf of Mexico;
(2) an inlet of the Gulf of Mexico; or
(3) a river or other navigable body of water.
(b) This section applies only if:
(1) the ferry connects designated state highways; or
(2) the ferry connects a designated highway of this state and a designated highway of an adjoining state that by statute provides for the acquisition, construction, and maintenance of a ferry jointly by the states and for public use of the ferry as the states agree.
(c) The department shall use money from the state highway fund to carry out 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.342.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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