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Texas Transportation Code - Chapter 311 General Provisions Relating To Municipal Streets

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  • Texas Transportation Code Section 311.001 - General Authority Of Home-Rule Municipality
    (a) A home-rule municipality has exclusive control over and under the public highways, streets, and alleys of the municipality. (b) The municipality may: (1) control, ...
  • Texas Transportation Code Section 311.002 - General Authority Of General-Law Municipality
    (a) A general-law municipality has exclusive control over the highways, streets, and alleys of the municipality. (b) The municipality may: (1) abate or remove an ...
  • Texas Transportation Code Section 311.003 - Additional Authority Of Type A General-Law Municipality
    The governing body of a Type A general-law municipality may: (1) prevent an encroachment or obstruction on a sidewalk in the municipality; (2) abate an ...
  • Texas Transportation Code Section 311.004 - Authority Over Sidewalk In Home-Rule Municipality
    A home-rule municipality may: (1) construct a sidewalk; (2) provide for the improvement of a sidewalk or the construction of a curb under an ordinance ...
  • Texas Transportation Code Section 311.005 - Movement Of Structure On Street In Home-Rule Municipality
    A home-rule municipality may regulate the movement of a structure over or on a street of the municipality. Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, § ...
  • Texas Transportation Code Section 311.006 - Authority Of County To Improve Street In Type B General-Law Municipality
    To facilitate travel on a street in a Type B general-law municipality, the commissioners court of a county may construct a bridge for or otherwise ...
  • Texas Transportation Code Section 311.007 - Closing Of Street Or Alley By Home-Rule Municipality
    A home-rule municipality may vacate, abandon, or close a street or alley. Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995. ...
  • Texas Transportation Code Section 311.008 - Closing Of Street Or Alley By General-Law Municipality
    The governing body of a general-law municipality by ordinance may vacate, abandon, or close a street or alley of the municipality if a petition signed ...
  • Texas Transportation Code Section 311.031 - Definition
    In this subchapter, "freeway" means a municipal street for which the right of access to or from adjoining land has been acquired in whole or ...
  • Texas Transportation Code Section 311.032 - Establishment Of Freeway
    (a) The governing body of a municipality may establish, maintain, and operate a freeway. (b) To establish a freeway by using a street that exists ...
  • Texas Transportation Code Section 311.033 - Acquisition Of Land
    For the purposes of this subchapter, the governing body may acquire necessary property or property rights by gift, devise, purchase, or condemnation in the same ...
  • Texas Transportation Code Section 311.034 - Control Of Intersecting Street
    The governing body of a municipality may: (1) close a street in the municipality at or near the place the street intersects a freeway; (2) ...
  • Texas Transportation Code Section 311.035 - Lease Of Land Under Freeway
    (a) A governmental agency that holds the title and property rights to land on which a freeway is located may lease for parking purposes the ...
  • Texas Transportation Code Section 311.051 - Regulation Of Street Railway By Type A General-Law Municipality
    (a) The governing body of a Type A general-law municipality may: (1) require a street railway company to: (A) keep the company's roads in repair; ...
  • Texas Transportation Code Section 311.052 - Regulation Of Railroad By Type A General-Law Municipality
    The governing body of a Type A general-law municipality may: (1) direct and control the location and construction of railroad tracks, turnouts, and switches and ...
  • Texas Transportation Code Section 311.053 - Closing Street For Certain Purposes In General-Law Or Special-Law Municipality
    The governing body of a general-law municipality or special-law municipality may close temporarily or permanently any part of a street or alley for the exclusive ...
  • Texas Transportation Code Section 311.071 - Authority To Grant Franchise
    (a) The governing body of a home-rule municipality by ordinance may grant to a person a franchise to use or occupy a public street or ...
  • Texas Transportation Code Section 311.072 - Prohibition Of Grant By Charter
    The charter of the municipality may not grant to a person a franchise described by Section 311.071. Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, § 1, ...
  • Texas Transportation Code Section 311.073 - Election After Petition
    (a) The governing body shall submit to the voters of the municipality the question of granting a franchise to a person if, before the effective ...
  • Texas Transportation Code Section 311.074 - Election Date
    After receipt of a petition under Section 311.073, the election shall be held on the first uniform election date prescribed by Section 41.001, Election Code, ...
  • Texas Transportation Code Section 311.075 - Election Notice
    (a) Notice of the election must be published in a daily newspaper in the municipality for at least 20 successive days before the date of ...
  • Texas Transportation Code Section 311.076 - Ballot Proposition
    The ballot at the election shall be printed to provide for voting for or against the proposition: "Granting of a franchise (brief description of the ...
  • Texas Transportation Code Section 311.077 - Effective Date Of Franchise
    If a majority of the votes cast at the election favor the proposition: (1) the governing body shall declare that result on canvassing the election ...
  • Texas Transportation Code Section 311.078 - Duration Of Franchise
    A franchise under this subchapter may not extend beyond the period set for its termination. Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, § 1, eff. Sept. ...
  • Texas Transportation Code Section 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 ...
  • Texas Transportation Code Section 311.092 - Assessment For Opening, Extending, Or Widening Of Street Or Alley In Home-Rule Municipality
    (a) A home-rule municipality may: (1) acquire land necessary for opening, extending, or widening a public street or alley by the exercise of the right ...
  • Texas Transportation Code Section 311.093 - Assessment For Sidewalk In Home-Rule Municipality
    (a) A home-rule municipality may assess a landowner for the entire cost of constructing a sidewalk, including a curb, abutting the owner's land. (b) The ...
  • Texas Transportation Code Section 311.094 - Other Financing Methods In Charter Of Home-Rule Municipality
    (a) A home-rule municipality by charter may adopt any other method of financing an improvement described by Section 311.091, 311.092, or 311.093. (b) Another method ...
  • Texas Transportation Code Section 311.095 - Assessment For Street Improvement In Type A General-Law Municipality
    (a) The governing body of a Type A general-law municipality, by a two-thirds vote of the aldermen present, may improve a street or alley under ...
  • Texas Transportation Code Section 311.096 - Cost Of Sidewalk In Type A General-Law Municipality
    (a) The governing body of a Type A general-law municipality may require the owner of a lot, or part of a lot or block, in ...
  • Texas Transportation Code Section 311.901 - Regulation Of Animals On Street Of Type A General-Law Municipality
    The governing body of a Type A general-law municipality may: (1) prohibit or suppress horse racing on a street or immoderate riding or driving of ...
  • Texas Transportation Code Section 311.902 - Street Lighting In Type A General-Law Municipality
    The governing body of a Type A general-law municipality may: (1) provide for and regulate the lighting of a street; (2) create or change lamp ...
  • Texas Transportation Code Section 311.903 - Street Work Required Of Inhabitant In Type B General-Law Municipality
    (a) The governing body of a Type B general-law municipality may require the male inhabitants of the municipality who are at least 18 years of ...
  • Texas Transportation Code Section 311.904 - Former President's Street In Home-Rule Municipality
    A home-rule municipality, alone or in conjunction with another person, may regulate or restrict access to a street or alley in the municipality on which ...
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    Last modified: August 10, 2007