Tex. Transp. Code § 455.001 · Subchapter A. GENERAL POWERS AND DUTIES
DEPARTMENT DUTIES REGARDING MASS TRANSPORTATION.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
The Texas Department of Transportation shall:
(1) encourage, foster, and assist in developing intracity and intercity public and mass transportation;
(2) encourage the establishment of rapid transit and other transportation media;
(3) assist any political subdivision of this state to obtain federal aid to establish or maintain a public or mass transportation system;
(4) develop and maintain a comprehensive master plan for public and mass transportation development; and
(5) conduct hearings and make investigations to determine the location, type of construction, and cost to the state or its political subdivisions of a public mass transportation system owned, operated, or wholly or partly directly financed by the state.
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.455.htm
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- Composed by
- 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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