Texas Transportation Code Title 6, Chapter 312 - Control Of Highway Assets

SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS

• Texas Section 312.001 - Definitions
  In this subchapter and in Subchapters B and C: (1) "Highway" includes all or any part of a street, alley, or public place or square...
• Texas Section 312.002 - Applicability And Adoption Of Subchapters
  (a) This subchapter and Subchapters B and C apply only to a municipality that has adopted those subchapters as provided by this section. (b) To...
• Texas Section 312.003 - Highway Improvement
  A municipality may: (1) order the improvement of a highway in the municipality's limits; (2) select the materials and methods to be used in that...

SUBCHAPTER B ASSESSMENTS

• Texas Section 312.004 - Conflict Of Laws
  To the extent of a conflict between this subchapter or Subchapter B or C and a law granting a special charter to a municipality, the...
• Texas Section 312.021 - Payment For Improvement
  (a) Payment for an improvement under Subchapter A may be made either entirely by the municipality or partly by the municipality and partly by the...
• Texas Section 312.022 - Assessment Ordinance
  (a) The governing body of a municipality by ordinance may assess the cost of an improvement made under Subchapter A against property that abuts and...
• Texas Section 312.023 - Assessment Or Tax Against Railway
  (a) The governing body of a municipality may assess against the owner of a railroad that occupies a highway ordered to be improved the entire...

SUBCHAPTER C HEARING; APPEAL; PROPERTY LIEN

• Texas Section 312.024 - Correction Of Error; Reassessment
  (a) The governing body of a municipality may correct a mistake or irregularity in a proceeding regarding an improvement or in an assessment of the...
• Texas Section 312.041 - Hearing Required
  (a) An assessment against property abutting an improvement or against the owner of the property may be made under Subchapter B only after the property...
• Texas Section 312.042 - Hearing
  (a) A hearing under this subchapter shall be before the governing body of the municipality. (b) An owner of property abutting a proposed improvement is...
• Texas Section 312.043 - Notice And Hearing: Rules
  The governing body of a municipality by ordinance shall adopt rules providing for giving notice and hearing as provided by this subchapter. Acts 1995, 74th...
• Texas Section 312.044 - No Lien On Exempt Property; Liability Of Owner
  (a) This chapter does not authorize a municipality to create a lien by assessment against property that by law is exempt from sale under execution....
• Texas Section 312.045 - Right To Appeal
  (a) A property owner against whose property or against whom the assessment has been made may bring suit to set aside or correct the assessment...
• Texas Section 312.046 - Enforcement Of Assessment Lien And Liability
  (a) An assessment lien created against property or the personal liability of the property owner may be enforced by suit or by sale of the...

SUBCHAPTER D SPECIAL ASSESSMENT

• Texas Section 312.047 - Assessment Certificate
  (a) A municipality that makes an assessment under Section 312.022 may: (1) issue in its name an assignable certificate that declares the liability of the...
• Texas Section 312.061 - Definition
  In this subchapter, "improvement" means the opening, straightening, widening, paving, constructing, or grading of a street, alley, sidewalk, gutter, or public way. Acts 1995, 74th...
• Texas Section 312.062 - Assessment Following Void Or Erroneous Assessment
  (a) The governing body of a municipality may assess property that abuts an improvement with the amount of the cost of the improvement if for...
• Texas Section 312.063 - Notice Of Assessment
  (a) An assessment may be made under this subchapter only if at least 10 days' written notice and an opportunity to be heard on the...
• Texas Section 312.064 - Assessment Lien And Liability
  (a) An assessment under this subchapter is payable in not less than five equal, annual installments. (b) An assessment under this subchapter is a lien...
• Texas Section 312.065 - Time Limit On Assessment
  (a) A proceeding to assess property under this subchapter may not be started later than three years after the date on which the improvement abutting...
• Texas Section 312.066 - Assessments In Certain Municipalities
  (a) The amount of an assessment made by the governing body of a municipality with fewer than 5,000 inhabitants may equal the entire cost of...
• Texas Section 312.067 - Right To Appeal
  (a) A property owner against whose property or against whom an assessment has been made may appeal to a court the decision of the governing...

Last modified: September 28, 2016