Tex. Water Code § 68.053 · Subchapter B. FACILITIES
USE OF CERTAIN DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION PROPERTY FOR SHIP CHANNEL SECURITY.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) In this section, "department" means the Texas Department of Transportation.
(b) Use of the department's facilities or property to serve a project aiding security in a ship channel security district created under this chapter serves a transportation purpose. A ship channel security district or a county whose commissioners court has created a ship channel security district may enter into an agreement with the department to provide for use of the department's facilities or property to aid security in the district.
(c) A county that has entered into an agreement with the department for use of the department's fiber optic network for transportation purposes may use the fiber optic network to serve a project aiding security in a ship channel security district created under this chapter in the same manner as other transportation purposes unless the agreement precludes the use of the fiber optic network for that purpose.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 4 (H.B. 1871), Sec. 1, eff. April 29, 2009.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/WA/htm/WA.68.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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