Tex. Transp. Code § 441.017 · Subchapter B. CREATION OF DISTRICT
APPROVAL OF PRELIMINARY PLAN FOR ROAD FACILITY IN MUNICIPALITY OR MUNICIPALITY'S EXTRATERRITORIAL JURISDICTION.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) This section applies only to a district that:
(1) is located in whole or part in a municipality or the extraterritorial jurisdiction of a municipality; and
(2) constructs, acquires, or improves a road facility that is to be:
(A) located in a municipality or a municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction; and
(B) conveyed to the county under Section 441.133.
(b) A county may not approve a preliminary plan or issue an approval statement for a road facility to which this section applies unless the person who seeks the approval agrees in writing to comply with the municipality's requirements for construction, acquisition, or improvement of a road facility in the municipality or the municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction. The county shall consult the municipality to ensure that the preliminary plan complies with those requirements.
(c) Not later than the 55th day after the date the plan is filed with the county, a municipality must complete its review of the plan and issue to the county and the person who submitted the plan a written statement approving the plan as complying with the municipality's requirements. Except as provided by Subsection (d):
(1) the county may not issue an approval statement under Section 441.015 until it receives the written statement from each municipality; and
(2) the person petitioning for creation of the district must submit the municipality's written statement in addition to other required documents.
(d) If a municipality does not timely file its statement with the county:
(1) the municipality waives its right to review and approve the plan;
(2) the county may issue the approval statement without the municipality's statement;
(3) the person who submitted the plan may petition for creation of the district without the municipality's statement; and
(4) the county shall issue to the person who submitted the plan a letter explaining that the municipality's statement was not timely filed, and the person shall submit the letter with the petition to the commission.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/TN/htm/TN.441.htm
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