Texas Transportation Code - Section 311.091. Assessment For Street Improvement In Home-Rule Municipality
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§ 311.091. ASSESSMENT FOR STREET IMPROVEMENT IN HOME-RULE
MUNICIPALITY. (a) A home-rule municipality may assess a landowner
for the cost of improving a public highway, street, or alley
abutting the owner's land, if the municipal charter provides for
apportioning the cost between the municipality and the landowner.
The assessment may not exceed the amount by which the improvement
specially benefits the owner's abutting land by enhancing the
land's value.
(b) The municipality may issue assignable certificates for
the payment of the assessed cost.
(c) The assessment creates a lien on the owner's abutting
land for the assessed cost.
(d) Regardless of Subsection (a), a railway company shall
pay the cost of a street improvement made between the rails or
tracks of the company or made in the area extending two feet from a
rail or track of the company.
Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.
Section: 311.072 311.073 311.074 311.075 311.076 311.077 311.078 311.091 311.092 311.093 311.094 311.095 311.096 311.901 311.902
Last modified: August 10, 2007
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