Tex. Transp. Code § 458.012 · Chapter 458. RURAL AND URBAN TRANSIT DISTRICTS
OPERATION OF LOCAL PUBLIC PASSENGER TRANSPORTATION IN RURAL TRANSIT DISTRICT PROHIBITED.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) From the effective date a rural transit district begins providing a public transportation service, another person or private corporation may not operate a local public passenger transportation service in the rural transit district, except as provided by Subsection (b).
(b) Subsection (a) does not apply to:
(1) the operation of:
(A) a taxicab; or
(B) a bus owned or operated by a corporation or organization exclusively for a purpose of the corporation or organization and for the use of which a fee or fare is not charged;
(2) an intercity passenger rail service;
(3) an intercity bus carrier; or
(4) a rural public transportation provider operating under an agreement entered into under this chapter that provides local public passenger transportation service.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 30.36(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.458.htm
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