Texas Transportation Code Title 6, Chapter 286 - Road Laws Relating To Specific Counties
SUBCHAPTER A ROAD IMPROVEMENTS AND ASSESSMENTS BY GALVESTON OR CAMERON COUNTY COMMISSIONERS COURT
- Texas Section 286.001 - Applicability
This subchapter applies only to Galveston County and Cameron County. Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.
- Texas Section 286.002 - Road Improvement And Assessment
(a) The commissioners court of the county may improve a county road in the county by: (1) filling, grading, raising, paving, or repairing the road...
- Texas Section 286.003 - Assessment Limited
(a) The commissioners court may not make an assessment against abutting property or the owners of the property in excess of the special benefit to...
- Texas Section 286.004 - Assessment Of Exempt Property
(a) This subchapter does not authorize the commissioners court to create a lien against an interest in property that is exempt from the lien of...
- Texas Section 286.005 - Apportionment Of Costs
(a) The commissioners court shall apportion the part of the cost of an improvement assessed against abutting property among the parcels of the abutting property...
- Texas Section 286.006 - Changes In Improvement Proceedings; Abandonment
(a) The commissioners court may change a plan, method, or contract relating to an improvement. (b) The commissioners court may not make a change that...
- Texas Section 286.007 - Notice And Other Prehearing Requirements
(a) A commissioners court may make an assessment under Section 286.002 only after notice and an opportunity for a hearing is provided in accordance with...
- Texas Section 286.008 - Hearing
The commissioners court shall hold a hearing at which a person who owns an interest in property that abuts a county road that is to...
- Texas Section 286.009 - Appeal
(a) Not later than the 15th day after the date the commissioners court makes an assessment under Section 286.002, a person who owns or claims...
- Texas Section 286.010 - Defenses To Actions For Assessments
The only defenses to an assessment in a suit to enforce the assessment are that: (1) the assessment exceeds the amount of the estimated assessment...
- Texas Section 286.011 - Word Or Act Of Officer Or Employee
Nothing said or done by a county officer or employee or a member of the commissioners court affects this subchapter. Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch....
- Texas Section 286.012 - Certificate Of Assessment
(a) The commissioners court may issue an assignable certificate that: (1) is evidence of an assessment made under this subchapter; and (2) declares: (A) the...
- Texas Section 286.013 - Validity Of Assessment
An assessment related to the cost of an improvement that is to be constructed is not valid unless the commissioners court: (1) makes or causes...
SUBCHAPTER B ROAD IMPROVEMENTS AND ASSESSMENTS BY LIVE OAK COUNTY COMMISSIONERS COURT
- Texas Section 286.014 - Correction Of Assessment; Subsequent Assessment
(a) If an assessment is held or determined to be invalid or unenforceable, the commissioners court may correct: (1) a deficiency in a proceeding relating...
- Texas Section 286.041 - Applicability
This subchapter applies only to Live Oak County. Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.
- Texas Section 286.042 - Assessment Provisions
(a) The commissioners court of the county may finance all or part of the cost of improving a portion of the county road system located...
- Texas Section 286.043 - Assessment Lien
(a) The county has a lien on assessed property under this subchapter that takes effect on the date the assessment is made. (b) The lien...
- Texas Section 286.044 - Assessment Liens On Certain Exempt Property
(a) The county may not assess a lien against property that on the date the commissioners court orders the assessment is exempt by law from...
- Texas Section 286.045 - Apportionment Of Costs
(a) The commissioners court shall apportion the assessed cost of improving a county road in accordance with the front foot rule which may vary among...
- Texas Section 286.046 - Plan Of Proposed Road Improvement
(a) The commissioners court shall prepare a plan of each proposed improvement that is to be financed by an assessment under Section 286.042. (b) The...
- Texas Section 286.047 - Notice And Order For Hearing
(a) After preparing the plan required by Section 286.046, the commissioners court by order shall set a time, date, and place for a public hearing...
- Texas Section 286.048 - Hearing
(a) The commissioners court shall hold a public hearing at which an owner of an interest in property that abuts a proposed improvement may contest:...
- Texas Section 286.049 - Appeal
(a) Not later than the 15th day after the date the commissioners court makes an assessment under this subchapter, the owner of an interest in...
- Texas Section 286.050 - Enforcement Of Assessment Or Liability
(a) A lien against assessed property and the personal liability of the owner may be enforced by suit in district court. An amount equal to...
- Texas Section 286.051 - Certificate Of Assessment
(a) The commissioners court of the county may issue an assignable certificate in the county's name that: (1) certifies an assessment imposed under this subchapter;...
- Texas Section 286.052 - Correction Of Assessment; Subsequent Assessment
(a) If an assessment is held invalid or unenforceable, the commissioners court may: (1) correct an error related to the assessment; and (2) after a...
SUBCHAPTER C ROADS TO PUBLIC STREAMS AND LAKES AND OTHER PUBLIC WATER IN LEON AND MADISON COUNTIES
- Texas Section 286.053 - Subsequent Assessment Certificate
(a) The commissioners court may issue a subsequent assessment certificate that reflects each modification of the original assessment. (b) A subsequent assessment certificate has the...
- Texas Section 286.061 - Applicability
This subchapter applies only to Leon County and Madison County. Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.
- Texas Section 286.062 - Definitions
In this subchapter: (1) "Public water" includes a public stream, river, bay, or lake. (2) "Navigable stream" has the meaning assigned by Section 21.001, Natural...
- Texas Section 286.063 - Public Necessity For Additional Roads; Purpose
(a) A public necessity for additional roads is created by the lack of adequate roads for general public access to a navigable stream, public lake,...
- Texas Section 286.064 - Public Road
The commissioners court may declare to be a public road to furnish access to public water a: (1) line between parcels of real property having...
- Texas Section 286.065 - Application For Public Road
(a) A person who lives within an enclosure described by Section 286.064(5), or 10 residents of the county, may file a sworn application with the...
- Texas Section 286.066 - Notice Of Application
(a) On the filing of an application under Section 286.065, the county clerk shall issue to the sheriff or a constable a notice that commands...
- Texas Section 286.067 - Opening Of Road To Public Water
(a) The commissioners court by order shall declare each line designated in the application or designated by the commissioners court to be a public road...
- Texas Section 286.068 - Roadwork
The commissioners court is not required to keep a road declared to be a public road under this subchapter worked by road hands. Acts 1995,...
- Texas Section 286.069 - Damages And Costs
(a) A jury of freeholders shall assess any damage to a property owner under this subchapter in the manner provided for other public roads. (b)...
SUBCHAPTER D OPTIONAL COUNTY ROAD SYSTEM IN GREGG COUNTY
- Texas Section 286.070 - Opening Road Parallel To Navigable Stream
(a) On the filing of an application in accordance with Sections 286.064 through 286.069, the commissioners court may issue an order that opens, in accordance...
- Texas Section 286.081 - Election For County Road System
(a) The commissioners court of Gregg County shall order an election on the question of the adoption of the optional county road system under Subchapter...
Last modified: September 28, 2016