Texas Transportation Code Title 6, Chapter 257 - Road Districts
SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS
- Texas Section 257.001 - Road District Or Precinct Operating Under Road Bond Law Designated Body Corporate; Power To Sue And Be Sued
(a) A county commissioners precinct or justice precinct operating under Chapter 1471, Government Code, or a road district is a body corporate and may sue...
- Texas Section 257.002 - Contracts Of Road District Or Precinct Operating Under Road Bond Law
(a) A county commissioner is the ex officio road superintendent with power to enter into a contract in an amount that is not more than...
- Texas Section 257.003 - Acquisition Of Roads
(a) Subject to Subsection (b), a road district established pursuant to Section 52, Article III, Texas Constitution, may agree to: (1) reimburse a private person...
- Texas Section 257.004 - Road District Signs
(a) A road district to which this chapter applies shall post signs indicating the existence of the district at two or more principal entrances to...
- Texas Section 257.005 - Notice To Purchasers Of Real Property In Road District
(a) Before the final closing of a sale of real property located in a road district, the seller shall furnish to the buyer of the...
SUBCHAPTER B ROAD DISTRICT WITHIN COUNTY
- Texas Section 257.006 - Applicability Of Chapter To County Operating Under Special Road Tax Law
A county operating under a special road tax law may take any action authorized by this chapter. Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 227,...
- Texas Section 257.021 - Establishment Of Road Districts
(a) The commissioners court of a county by order may establish one or more road districts in the county as provided by Section 52, Article...
- Texas Section 257.022 - Abolition Of Road District
(a) The commissioners court by order may abolish a road district after a public hearing on the matter if: (1) the road district has no...
- Texas Section 257.023 - Exclusion Of Certain Territory Of Existing Districts From Road District
(a) A county commissioners court may exclude from a proposed road district any territory that is part of or adjacent to an existing road district...
- Texas Section 257.024 - Excluding Real Property From Road District
(a) Before the commissioners court orders an election to authorize bonds for a road district, the commissioners court, on its own motion or on receipt...
- Texas Section 257.025 - Adding Real Property To Road District By Property Owner Petition
(a) One or more persons may file a petition with the commissioners court of a county requesting that real property owned by the person or...
SUBCHAPTER C ROAD DISTRICT IN ADJOINING COUNTIES
- Texas Section 257.026 - Adding Territory To Road District By Petition Or On Commissioners Court Motion
(a) The commissioners court of a county on its own motion may hold a hearing on the question of annexing a defined area to a...
- Texas Section 257.101 - Road District Authorized; Nature Of District
(a) The qualified voters of two or more adjoining counties or portions of adjoining counties in the manner provided by this subchapter may combine those...
- Texas Section 257.102 - Petition To Establish Road District
(a) A petition to establish a road district under this subchapter must be signed by at least 50 registered voters or a majority of the...
- Texas Section 257.103 - Change In Roads Designated In Petition
The commissioners court of a county may change a road designated in the petition calling for the establishment of a road district under this subchapter...
- Texas Section 257.104 - Notice Of Hearing On Petition
(a) On presentation of a petition under Section 257.102, the commissioners court of each county shall order the time for the petition to be heard...
- Texas Section 257.105 - Hearing On Petition
(a) At the time and place set for the hearing of a petition presented under Section 257.102, or on a subsequent date set at that...
- Texas Section 257.106 - Order Of Election To Establish District
(a) The commissioners court of each county included in whole or part in a proposed road district may issue and record in its minutes an...
- Texas Section 257.107 - Election To Establish District
(a) Notice of an election to establish a road district under this subchapter shall be given in the same manner and for the same time...
- Texas Section 257.108 - Ex Officio District Directors
(a) The following are ex officio directors of a road district established under this subchapter: (1) for a county that is wholly included in the...
- Texas Section 257.109 - Meetings Of Commissioners Or Directors
A joint meeting of the commissioners courts or ex officio directors of a road district established under this subchapter may be adjourned from day to...
- Texas Section 257.110 - District Treasurer Or Depository
(a) At a joint meeting held for that purpose in the county having the greatest population, the commissioners of the counties included in whole or...
- Texas Section 257.111 - Purchase Of Improved Roads
(a) A road district established under this subchapter may purchase or take over an improved road previously constructed by a county or by another road...
- Texas Section 257.112 - Bonds And Tax Authorized
As provided by Section 52, Article III, Texas Constitution, to construct, maintain, and operate macadamized, graveled, or paved roads or turnpikes, or in aid of...
- Texas Section 257.113 - Order For Bond Election
(a) The members of the commissioners courts of the counties included in whole or part in a road district established under this subchapter at a...
- Texas Section 257.114 - Notice Of Bond Election
(a) A certified copy of an order for an election made under Section 257.113 shall be sent to the county clerk of each county included...
- Texas Section 257.115 - Declaration Of Bond Election Results
The ex officio directors of a road district established under this subchapter by order shall declare the result of a district bond election and certify...
- Texas Section 257.116 - Orders To Issue Bonds And Levy Tax
If in a bond election held under this subchapter two-thirds of the votes received in each county or portion of a county included in the...
- Texas Section 257.117 - Levy Of Bond Tax
(a) Each year, the commissioners courts of the counties included in whole or part in a road district established under this subchapter shall determine the...
- Texas Section 257.118 - Issuance Of Bonds
(a) Bonds issued by a road district under this subchapter shall be: (1) issued in the name of the road district; (2) signed by the...
- Texas Section 257.119 - Sale Of Bonds
(a) The commissioners courts of the counties included in whole or part in a road district established under this subchapter, at a joint meeting held...
- Texas Section 257.120 - Bond Proceeds
(a) On the issuance and sale of road district bonds under this subchapter, the commissioners court of each county included in whole or part in...
- Texas Section 257.121 - Application Of County Bond Laws
Except as otherwise provided by this subchapter, the general laws governing county road bonds authorized under Section 52, Article III, Texas Constitution, apply to the...
- Texas Section 257.122 - Interest Rate And Maturity Of Bonds
Bonds issued under this subchapter shall mature not later than the 40th anniversary of the date of their issuance and shall bear interest at a...
- Texas Section 257.123 - Bond Records
(a) The commissioners court of each county included in whole or part in a road district established under this subchapter shall make a record of...
SUBCHAPTER Z MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
- Texas Section 257.124 - Bond Warrants
(a) The treasurer or depository of a road district established under this subchapter shall pay out the proceeds from the sale of the district's bonds...
- Texas Section 257.901 - Land Development In Road District With Outstanding Indebtedness
(a) In this section: (1) "Affected area" means the area: (A) of an assessment road district; and (B) within 1,500 feet of the boundary of...
Last modified: September 28, 2016