Tex. Transp. Code § 453.051 · Subchapter B. CREATION AND ADMINISTRATION OF TRANSIT DEPARTMENT
CREATION OF TRANSIT DEPARTMENT.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The governing body of a municipality, by ordinance or resolution, may create a transit department if:
(1) the municipality operates a mass transportation system;
(2) the municipality has a population of 50,000 or more; and
(3) the governing body determines that the creation of a transit department and operation of a transit department system would be in the public interest and of benefit to persons residing in the municipality.
(b) The jurisdiction of a transit department is coextensive with the territory of the municipality that creates the transit department.
(c) The jurisdiction of a transit department created by a municipality with a population of more than 500,000 that borders the United Mexican States does not include any territory within the boundaries of a federal military installation that is located in that municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995. Amended by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 30.31(a), eff. Sept. 1, 1997.
Amended by:
Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 146 (H.B. 205), Sec. 2, eff. July 1, 2011.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/TN/htm/TN.453.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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