Tex. Transp. Code § 370.401 · Subchapter K. DESIGN-BUILD CONTRACTS
SCOPE OF AND LIMITATIONS ON CONTRACTS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) Notwithstanding the requirements of Chapter 2254, Government Code, an authority may use the design-build method for the design, construction, financing, expansion, extension, related capital maintenance, rehabilitation, alteration, or repair of a transportation project.
(b) A design-build contract under this subchapter may not grant to a private entity:
(1) a leasehold interest in the transportation project; or
(2) the right to operate or retain revenue from the operation of the transportation project.
(c) In using the design-build method and in entering into a contract for the services of a design-build contractor, the authority and the design-build contractor shall follow the procedures and requirements of this subchapter.
(d) An authority may enter into not more than two design-build contracts for transportation projects in any fiscal year.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 1345 (S.B. 1420), Sec. 38, eff. September 1, 2011.
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/TN/htm/TN.370.htm
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