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Texas Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes - Chapter 13 Miscellaneous RailroadsLegal Research Home > Texas Lawyer > Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes > Texas Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes - Chapter 13 Miscellaneous Railroads All corporations chartered for the purpose of constructing, acquiring, maintaining and operating lines of electric railway between any cities and towns in this State for ... Such corporation shall have the right and power to lay out rights of way for their railways not to exceed two hundred feet in width, ... They may construct their railways along, across and over any stream of water, water course, bay, navigable water, arm of the sea, street, highway, steam ... The right of condemnation herein given to interurban electric railway companies shall include the power and authority to condemn for their use and benefit, easements ... Any interurban electric railway company, seeking to avail itself of the benefits of this chapter shall have the right to condemn an easement along and ... An interurban electric railway company, within the meaning of this chapter, is a corporation chartered under the laws of this State for the purpose of ... Interurban electric railway companies shall also have the right to produce, supply and sell electric light and power to the public and to municipalities. Acts ... Any corporation now or hereafter organized under the laws of this state authorized to construct, acquire and operate electric or other lines of railway within ... That all private corporations which have heretofore been incorporated and are now authorized by their charters and the Statutes of this State to operate street ... No provision in this chapter shall be construed to have the effect to confer the power of eminent domain, or any power herein conferred, except ... Any corporation organized under the laws of this State authorized to construct, acquire and operate electric or other interurban lines of railway in this State, ... All persons or corporations owning or operating street railways in or upon the public streets of any town or city of not less than forty ... All street and suburban railways engaged in the transportation of freight within and near cities and towns, shall be subject to the control of the ... All electric, gas or gasoline, denatured alcohol or naphtha interurban or motor railways incorporated as such, which shall engage in transporting freight, shall be subject ... Any corporation heretofore organized under any law of this State, and which now or may hereafter operate a line of electric, gas or gasoline, denatured ... 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 ... Authority Sec. 1. That private corporations heretofore incorporated for the purpose of operating street or interurban railways, which said private corporations have totally abandoned such ... Terminal railways shall have all the rights and powers conferred by law upon railroads by Chapters 6 and 7 of this title, and when such ... Corporations created to build, maintain and operate a line of railroads to mines, gins, quarries, manufacturing plants, and mills, shall have the right to condemn ... Every person, firm, corporation, limited partnership, joint stock association or other association of any kind whatsoever, owning, constructing, operating or managing any aerial or other ... Findings Sec. 1. The legislature finds that: (1) the state contains many rural areas that are heavily dependent on agriculture for economic survival; (2) ... Definitions Sec. 1. In this article: (1) "Commission" means the Texas Transportation Commission. (2) "Commuter rail facility" means any property necessary for the transportation ... A transportation entity created under this title for the purpose of providing public transportation as defined by Section 452.001, Transportation Code, is a governmental unit ... Texas Lawyers
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