Texas Transportation Code - Section 256.008. State Funding Of Farm-To-Market Roads
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§ 256.008. STATE FUNDING OF FARM-TO-MARKET ROADS. (a)
Money in the farm-to-market road fund may be used only to finance
the construction, improvement, and maintenance of farm-to-market
roads by the department.
(b) The department shall use money made available for the
construction, improvement, and maintenance of farm-to-market roads
so that not less than $23 million is used each year for those
purposes on farm-to-market roads selected under Subsection (c).
(c) The money spent under Subsection (b) shall be used for a
system of roads selected by the department after consultation with
the commissioners courts of the counties to identify the most
needed roads in the counties. The department shall make the
selections in a manner intended to ensure equitable and judicious
distribution of money and work among the counties.
(d) To be selected, a road must have the following general
characteristics:
(1) it may not be a potential addition to the federal
aid primary highway system;
(2) it must serve rural areas primarily and must
connect farms, ranches, rural homes, sources of natural resources
such as oil, mines, timber, and water loading points, schools,
churches, and points of public congregation, including community
developments and villages;
(3) it must be capable of contributing to the creation
of economic values in the areas it serves;
(4) it must preferably serve as a public school bus
route or rural free delivery postal route; and
(5) it must be capable of early integration into the
improved state road system, and at least one end of the road should
connect with an improved road or a road that is soon to be improved
that is in the state road system.
Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.
Section: 256.001 256.002 256.003 256.004 256.005 256.006 256.007 256.008 256.009 256.010 256.051 256.052 256.053 256.054 257.001
Last modified: August 10, 2007
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