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Texas Transportation Code - Chapter 203 Modernization Of State Highways; Controlled Access HighwaysLegal Research Home > Texas Lawyer > Transportation Code > Texas Transportation Code - Chapter 203 Modernization Of State Highways; Controlled Access Highways Sponsored LinksIn this chapter: (1) "Controlled access highway" means a designated state highway to or from which access is denied or controlled, in whole or in ... (a) To promote public safety, facilitate the movement of traffic, preserve the public's financial investment in highways, promote the national defense, and accomplish the purposes ... (a) Subject to Section 203.021, the commission may lay out, construct, maintain, and operate a designated state highway, with control of access as necessary to ... (a) For a highway project that bypasses or goes through a county or municipality, including a home-rule municipality, the commission shall hold at least one ... (a) The department shall by rule provide owners of adjoining property and affected local governments and public officials with notice and an opportunity for comment ... (a) The commission, by order entered in its minutes, may: (1) designate a state highway of the designated state highway system as a controlled access ... (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), an order of the commission under Section 203.031 supersedes a conflicting rule or ordinance of a state agency ... A court may not grant an injunction to prevent or stay a commission order of denial of previously existing access to a state highway unless ... (a) An owner of real property adjoining a new controlled access highway location is not entitled to access to the new highway location as a ... (a) The commission may acquire by purchase, on terms and conditions the commission considers proper or by the exercise of eminent domain, in the name ... (a) The commission may acquire an interest in real property, a property right, or a material under Section 203.051 only if the commission determines that ... (a) If a proposed acquisition of a tract of real property under Section 203.052 would leave the owner of the property a remainder of the ... (a) The authorization under this subchapter to purchase or exercise the power of eminent domain is not affected by the location of the real property, ... (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), the attorney general, at the request of the commission, shall bring and prosecute a condemnation suit of the ... (a) The governing body of a political subdivision or public agency that owns or is in charge of public real property may consent to the ... (a) The commission may use real property owned by the state, including submerged real property, that the commission could acquire under this subchapter for highway ... (a) The commission shall advise and make arrangements with the state agency that has jurisdiction over the state-owned real property to accomplish the purpose of ... (a) If the acquisition of real property, property rights, or material by the department from a state agency under this subchapter will deprive the agency ... (a) Before acquiring property under this subchapter, the department may purchase the right to lease the property to a third party. (b) The department may ... The comptroller may issue a warrant on the appropriate account to pay for real property or an interest in real property when presented with a ... (a) If the owner of property acquired by the department under this subchapter fails to deliver an executed deed before payment of consideration, the comptroller ... (a) If the department acquires real property through the exercise of the power of eminent domain, the comptroller may issue a warrant as required by ... The payment procedures specified by Sections 203.060, 203.061, and 203.062 are in addition to any other procedure or method authorized for the issuance of a ... (a) The commission may acquire by gift or devise a property necessary to lay out, construct, maintain, or operate a section of a state highway ... (a) A county commissioners court may acquire by gift, devise, purchase, or condemnation a property necessary to lay out, construct, maintain, or operate a section ... (a) This section and Section 203.067 apply only to a taking for a toll project. (b) The department may file a declaration of taking with ... (a) Immediately on the filing of a declaration of taking under Section 203.066, the department shall serve a copy of the declaration on each person ... (a) The department and its authorized agents may enter any real property, water, or premises in this state to make a survey, sounding, drilling, or ... Covenants, conditions, restrictions, or limitations affecting property acquired in any manner by the department are not binding against the department and do not impair the ... In this subchapter, "utility" includes a publicly, privately, or cooperatively owned utility that provides telephone, telegraph, communications, electric, gas, heating, water, railroad, storm sewer, sanitary ... (a) A utility shall make a relocation of a utility facility at the expense of this state if relocation of the utility facility is required ... (a) At the discretion of the department, the department may cause a utility to relocate a utility facility, or make a relocation of a utility ... (a) Reimbursement of the cost of relocation of the utility facility, as required by Section 203.092, may be made from the state highway fund to ... (a) If the department determines that a facility of a utility must be relocated to accommodate an improvement to the state highway system, the utility ... (a) A utility that is eligible for reimbursement under Section 203.092 or that is eligible for reimbursement under applicable law and the policies of the ... (a) The relocation of a utility facility required by improvement of any segment of the state highway system, for which a political subdivision receives financial ... The department shall adopt rules to implement this subchapter. Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995. ... (a) The commission may lease for parking purposes real property beneath an elevated section of a freeway located on real property for which the commission ... Last modified: August 11, 2007 |