Texas Transportation Code Title 5, Chapter 131 - Miscellaneous Railways

SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS

SUBCHAPTER B ELECTRIC RAILWAYS

• Texas Section 131.001 - Definition Of Person
  In this chapter: (1) "person" includes a corporation, as provided by Section 312.011, Government Code; and (2) the definition of "person" assigned by Section 311.005,...
• Texas Section 131.011 - Definition
  In this subchapter, "interurban electric railway company" means a corporation chartered under the laws of this state to conduct and operate an electric railway between...
• Texas Section 131.012 - Eminent Domain
  A corporation chartered for the purpose of constructing, acquiring, maintaining, or operating lines of electric railway between municipalities in this state for the transportation of...
• Texas Section 131.013 - Right-of-way
  (a) A corporation described by Section 131.012 may: (1) lay out right-of-way not to exceed 200 feet in width for its railways; (2) construct its...
• Texas Section 131.014 - Construction Of Railway Along Or Over Waterway Or Infrastructure
  (a) A corporation described by Section 131.012 may construct its railway along, across, or over any stream, water course, bay, navigable water, arm of the...
• Texas Section 131.015 - Use Of Electric Street Railway Tracks
  (a) An interurban electric railway company's power of eminent domain under this subchapter includes the power to condemn for its use and benefit easements and...
• Texas Section 131.016 - Time Required For Construction
  The rights secured under this chapter by an interurban electric railway company are void unless the road to be constructed under the charter of the...

SUBCHAPTER C MERGER OF INTERURBAN RAILWAY

• Texas Section 131.017 - Use Of Condemned Track
  (a) Unless the company whose track is condemned under this subchapter consents, an interurban electric railway company exercising the powers granted under this chapter may...
• Texas Section 131.031 - Definition
  In this subchapter, "interurban railway" means an electric or other interurban line of railway in this state. Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch....
• Texas Section 131.032 - Acquisition Of Railway Property Authorized
  (a) A corporation organized under the laws of this state that is authorized to construct, acquire, and operate an interurban railway may: (1) acquire, lease,...
• Texas Section 131.033 - Municipal Consent Required
  (a) Before selling property under this subchapter, a corporation that owns or operates a street car railway must obtain the consent of the governing body...
• Texas Section 131.034 - Use Of Street Railways
  A corporation authorized to construct, acquire, and operate an interurban railway and a corporation owning and operating a street railway may enter into a trackage...

SUBCHAPTER D PROVISION OF UTILITIES

• Texas Section 131.035 - Limitation On Acquisition
  A corporation described by this subchapter may not: (1) acquire, own, control, or operate a parallel or competing interurban line; or (2) purchase, lease, acquire,...
• Texas Section 131.061 - Interurban Electric Railways
  An interurban electric railway company, as defined by Section 131.011, is entitled to produce, supply, and sell electric light and power to the public and...

SUBCHAPTER E REDUCED STREET RAILWAY FARES

• Texas Section 131.062 - Supply And Sale Of Electricity By Street, Suburban, Or Belt Line Railway
  A corporation organized under the general laws of this state that owns or operates with electric power any street or suburban railway or belt line...
• Texas Section 131.101 - Applicability
  This subchapter applies only to a person or corporation owning or operating a street railway in or on the public streets of a municipality with...
• Texas Section 131.102 - Children Younger Than 13 Years Of Age
  (a) The owner or operator of a street railway shall transport a child younger than 13 years of age for half the fare regularly collected...
• Texas Section 131.103 - Students
  (a) The owner or operator of a street railway shall sell or provide for the sale of tickets for half of the regular fare collected...
• Texas Section 131.104 - Children Younger Than Six Years Of Age
  The owner or operator of a street railway shall transport free of charge a child younger than six years of age when attended by a...

SUBCHAPTER Z MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

• Texas Section 131.105 - Transfer Rights
  The owner or operator of a street railway shall offer a passenger paying a reduced fare or no fare under this subchapter the same rights...
• Texas Section 131.901 - Street And Suburban Railways
  (a) Street and suburban railways engaged in the transportation of freight in and near a municipality are subject to the control of the department. (b)...
• Texas Section 131.902 - Freight Interurban Railways
  (a) An entity incorporated as an electric, gas or gasoline, denatured alcohol, or naphtha interurban or motor railway that engages in transporting freight is subject...
• Texas Section 131.903 - Buildings And Other Facilities: Certain Railways
  A corporation organized before September 1, 1925, under any law of this state, that operates a line of electric, gas or gasoline, denatured alcohol, or...
• Texas Section 131.904 - Motor Bus Lines
  (a) This section applies only to a corporation authorized to operate a street or suburban railway or an interurban railway and to carry passengers for...

Last modified: September 28, 2016