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Texas Transportation Code - Section 456.001. Definitions

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§ 456.001. DEFINITIONS.  In this chapter:                                   
		(1)  "Capital improvement" means the acquisition, 
construction, or improvement of a facility, equipment, or real 
property for use in public transportation service.  The term 
includes designing, engineering, supervising, inspecting, 
surveying, mapping, relocation, right-of-way acquisition, housing 
replacement, and other expenses incidental to the acquisition, 
construction, or improvement.
		(2)  "Designated recipient" means an entity that 
receives money from the United States or this state for public 
transportation through the department or the Federal Transit 
Administration or the administration's successor and is a transit 
authority, a municipality not included in a transit authority, a 
local governmental body, another political subdivision of this 
state, or a nonprofit entity providing rural public transportation 
service.
		(3)  "Federal-Aid Highway Act" means the Federal-Aid 
Highway Act of 1973 (49 U.S.C. Section 1602a).
		(4)  "Federal Transit Act" means the Federal Transit 
Act (49 U.S.C. Section 5301 et seq.) and includes the Urban Mass 
Transportation Act of 1964.
		(5)  "Federally financed project" means a public 
transportation project that is partially financed under a program 
of the United States for financing public transportation.
		(6)  "Local share requirement" means the amount of 
money required of and available to a public transportation provider 
in this state to match the amount available from the United States 
for a federally financed project.
		(7)  "Operating expense" means an expense, including an 
administrative expense, incurred in the daily operation of a public 
transportation system.
		(8)  "Public transportation" means transportation of 
passengers and their hand-carried packages or baggage on a regular 
or continuing basis by means of surface or water, including fixed 
guideway or underground transportation or transit, other than 
aircraft, taxicab, ambulance, or emergency vehicle.
		(9)  "Ride-sharing activity" means transportation 
provided by a vehicle equipped with rubber tires that carries 10 to 
15 passengers.
		(10)  "State-financed project" means a project for 
which this state provides partial financing under this chapter.
		(11)  "Transit authority" means a municipality or a 
metropolitan or regional authority in an urbanized area of over 
200,000 population with a local transit tax.
		(12)  "Urbanized area" means an area with a population 
of more than 50,000 so designated by the United States Bureau of the 
Census.
		(13)  "Nonurbanized area" means an area outside the 
boundaries of an urbanized area and so designated by the United 
States Bureau of the Census.
		(14)  "Local funds" include:                                                  
			(A)  passenger revenues, notwithstanding any 
statutory requirement to apply that money to offset operating 
deficits;
			(B)  money from the purchase of service 
agreements, contract income, advertising revenue, local tax 
receipts, and private donations;
			(C)  money provided by a political subdivision of 
this state;  and         
			(D)  in-kind contributions.                                                  

Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.  Amended 
by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 165, § 30.33(b), eff. Sept. 1, 1997;  
Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 588, § 1, eff. June 2, 1997.

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