Texas Transportation Code Title 6, Chapter 281 - Acquisition Of Public Interest In Private Road By Certain Counties

• Texas Section 281.001 - Applicability Of Chapter
  This chapter applies only to a county with a population of 50,000 or less. Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1,
• Texas Section 281.002 - Acquisition Of Public Interest In Private Road
  A county may acquire a public interest in a private road only by: (1) purchase; (2) condemnation; (3) dedication; or (4) a court's final judgment...
• Texas Section 281.003 - Dedication
  (a) For purposes of this chapter, a dedication must be: (1) an explicit voluntary grant of the use of a private road for public purposes;...
• Texas Section 281.004 - Adverse Possession
  For purposes of this chapter, adverse possession is not established by the: (1) use of a private road by the public with the permission of...
• Texas Section 281.005 - Resolution Of Commissioners Court
  (a) After a public interest in a private road is acquired under this chapter, the commissioners court of the county in which the road is...
• Texas Section 281.006 - Notice To Owner Required
  A commissioners court may not assert a public interest in a private road acquired under this chapter until the court: (1) complies with Section 281.005;...
• Texas Section 281.007 - Contest
  A person asserting a right, title, or interest in a private road in which a public interest is asserted under this chapter may file suit...

Last modified: September 28, 2016