Tex. Transp. Code § 463.056 · Subchapter B. POWERS OF AUTHORITIES
OPERATION OF PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) An authority may:
(1) acquire, construct, develop, plan, own, operate, and maintain a public transportation system in the territory of the authority, including in the territory of a political subdivision;
(2) contract with a municipality, county, or other political subdivision for the authority to provide public transportation services outside the authority; and
(3) lease all or a part of the public transportation system to, or contract for the operation of all or a part of the public transportation system by, an operator.
(b) An authority, as the authority determines advisable, shall determine routes.
(c) The executive committee may submit a referendum for the approval of a power granted by Subsection (a) or (b).
(d) A private operator who contracts with an authority under this chapter is not a public entity for purposes of any law of this state except that an independent contractor of the authority that performs a function of the authority is liable for damages only to the extent that the authority would be liable if the authority itself were performing the function.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 151 (H.B. 71), Sec. 1, eff. May 24, 2019.
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.463.htm
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