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Art. 6548. JITNEY LINES. Any corporation authorized to
operate a street or suburban railway or interurban railway and to
carry passengers for hire, is hereby authorized subject in every
case to the approval and consent of the governing body of the city
or town where said street, suburban or interurban railway company
is operated to substitute for such railway automobile motor bus
lines, in whole or in part, and to maintain and operate motor buses
for the purpose of carrying passengers for hire on the public roads,
streets, plazas, alleys, and highways within the corporate limits
of any incorporated cities or towns, under such regulations as may
be prescribed by any such cities or towns, and on the public roads
and highways within five (5) miles of the corporate limits of any
such incorporated cities or towns, under such regulations, in
territory outside of city limits, as the Commissioners Court of the
county may prescribe; and such substitution of motor buses for
street cars and street or interurban railway and the discontinuance
of such street or interurban railways shall not in any way impair
any of the corporate powers of corporations heretofore incorporated
as street or interurban railways with respect to the operation of
other public utilities authorized by their charters and by statutes
now in force.
Provided, however, companies taking advantage of this Act
shall amend their charters and pay the fees provided by law for the
filing of such amendments; and, provided that this Act shall not
affect any case now pending in the courts; and, provided further
that nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to impair the
rights of any city under any franchise it may heretofore have
granted to the corporation in question, or its predecessor.
Acts 2nd C.S. 1923, p. 97.
Amended by Acts 1933, 43rd Leg., p. 48, ch. 22.
Article: 6541b 6542 6543 6544 6545 6546 6547 6548 6548a 6549 6550 6550a1 6550c 6550c-1 6550d
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