Texas Transportation Code Title 6, Chapter 315 - Artificial Lighting
SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS
- Texas Section 315.001 - Definitions
In this chapter: (1) "Abutting property" means property abutting a street on which lighting improvements are made or proposed to be made. (2) "Special benefit"...
SUBCHAPTER B AUTHORITY AND INITIAL PROCEDURES
- Texas Section 315.002 - Applicability
This chapter applies only to a municipality with a population of more than 5,000. Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1,
- Texas Section 315.021 - Establishment Of Lighting Improvements
(a) A municipality may install and maintain lighting improvements for a local public street as provided by this chapter if the governing body of the...
- Texas Section 315.022 - Contents Of Petition
(a) A petition submitted under Section 315.021(a)(2) must: (1) state that a street or a district composed of streets, highways, or alleys should be lighted;...
- Texas Section 315.023 - Plans And Specifications
(a) The governing body may: (1) order the use of all or any part of the materials specified in the petition in constructing the lighting...
- Texas Section 315.024 - Ownership And Control
After lighting improvements made under this chapter are installed and accepted by the municipality, the improvements become a part of the municipality's lighting system. Acts...
SUBCHAPTER C BIDS AND CONTRACTS
- Texas Section 315.025 - Use Of Available Money
A municipality may use available money to assist in financing lighting improvements. Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.
- Texas Section 315.041 - Advertisement For Bid
(a) On approval and adoption of plans and specifications by the governing body of a municipality, the municipal secretary or other officer designated by the...
- Texas Section 315.042 - Filing Of Bid
(a) The governing body of a municipality may prescribe a period of not less than 10 or more than 15 days after the date on...
- Texas Section 315.043 - Amendment Of Bid Prohibited
A bid may not be amended after it has been filed. Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.
- Texas Section 315.044 - Opening Of Bids; Acceptance Or Rejection
(a) Bids shall be opened and read at a public meeting of the governing body of a municipality. (b) The governing body may: (1) accept...
SUBCHAPTER D PAYMENT OF COSTS
- Texas Section 315.045 - Contracts
(a) After the governing body of a municipality has accepted a bid for lighting improvements, the municipality shall contract with a contractor whose bid has...
- Texas Section 315.061 - Authority To Assess Costs
(a) A municipality may assess against owners of abutting property who will specially benefit from lighting improvements the entire cost, including labor and material, of...
- Texas Section 315.062 - Method Of Assessment
(a) An assessment against abutting property or an owner of abutting property shall be made according to the frontage of that property on a street...
- Texas Section 315.063 - Adjustment Of Equities
If the governing body of a municipality considers that assessing and apportioning costs as provided by Section 315.062 would be unjust or unequal in a...
- Texas Section 315.064 - Statement Of Ownership And Costs
(a) After the governing body of a municipality has approved and executed a contract for lighting improvements, the municipal engineer shall prepare and submit to...
- Texas Section 315.065 - Notice Of Hearing
(a) After the governing body of a municipality has examined and approved a statement prepared under Section 315.064, the governing body by resolution shall direct...
- Texas Section 315.066 - Hearing
(a) A hearing: (1) is before the governing body of the municipality; and (2) may not be held before the 10th day after the date...
- Texas Section 315.067 - Rules
The governing body of a municipality may adopt rules governing hearings or notice of hearings that the governing body considers advisable to give all property...
- Texas Section 315.068 - Waiver Of Objection
An objection to an irregularity in a proceeding regarding proposed lighting improvements under this chapter or to the validity of an assessment or adjudication of...
- Texas Section 315.069 - Assessment Order
(a) After the close of a hearing held under Section 315.066, the governing body of the municipality by ordinance shall assess against each owner of...
- Texas Section 315.070 - Installments
(a) The governing body may order the assessments payable in not more than six installments and prescribe the amount, time, and manner of payment of...
- Texas Section 315.071 - Discharge Of Obligation
An owner of abutting property may discharge the total amount assessed against the owner, or any installment of that amount, at any time before maturity,...
- Texas Section 315.072 - Lien
(a) An assessment under this subchapter against a property or property owner and any costs and reasonable attorney's fees incurred are a personal claim against...
- Texas Section 315.073 - Priority Of Lien
A lien under Section 315.072 is superior to any other lien, claim, or title, except a municipal, county, or state tax. Acts 1995, 74th Leg.,...
- Texas Section 315.074 - Certificate Of Obligation
(a) The governing body of a municipality may provide that: (1) a contractor to whom work is let under this chapter may recover the costs...
SUBCHAPTER E JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS
- Texas Section 315.075 - Payment From Available Money
(a) The cost of lighting improvements made without a petition by property owners shall be paid by the municipality out of the municipality's available money....
- Texas Section 315.091 - Suit On Lien
Personal liability established under Section 315.072 may be enforced by bringing suit. Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.
- Texas Section 315.092 - Suit To Contest Assessment Or Proceeding
(a) A person who has an interest in property that may be subject to assessment under this chapter or who has any other financial interest...
- Texas Section 315.093 - Estoppel
(a) A person who does not bring suit within the period prescribed by Section 315.092 or who does not diligently and in good faith prosecute...
- Texas Section 315.094 - Affidavit
(a) In a suit brought under Section 315.092, an affidavit must be attached to the plaintiff's petition stating: (1) that the matters alleged in the...
- Texas Section 315.095 - Suspension Of Work
When suit is brought under Section 315.092, the municipality or the contractor may suspend performance of work until a final judgment is rendered in the...
- Texas Section 315.096 - Appeal
(a) An appeal or writ of error must be perfected not later than the 30th day after the date of adjournment of the term of...
Last modified: September 28, 2016