Tex. Transp. Code § 457.354 · Subchapter H. DISSOLUTION OF AUTHORITY; WITHDRAWAL OF UNIT OF ELECTION
WITHDRAWAL ELECTION.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) An election to withdraw from an authority must be held on the first applicable uniform election date occurring after the expiration of 12 calendar months after the date the governing body orders the election.
(b) The governing body shall give notice of the election to the board, the department, and the comptroller immediately on calling the election.
(c) At the election, the ballots shall be printed to permit voting for or against the proposition: "Shall the (name of authority) be continued in (name of unit of election)?"
(d) If a majority of the votes received on the measure in an election favor the proposition, the authority continues in the unit of election.
(e) If less than a majority of the votes received on the measure in the election favor the proposition, the authority ceases in the unit of election on the day after the date of the canvass of the election.
(f) On the effective date of a withdrawal from an authority:
(1) the authority shall cease providing transportation services in the withdrawn unit of election; and
(2) the financial obligations of the authority attributable to the withdrawn unit of election cease to accrue.
(g) Withdrawal from an authority does not affect the right of the authority to travel through the territory of the unit of election to provide service to a unit of election that is a part of the authority.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 30.35(a), eff. Sept. 1, 1997.
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.457.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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