SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS
- Texas Section 451.001 - Definitions
In this chapter: (1) "Alternate municipality" means a municipality that: (A) has a population of more than 60,000; (B) is located in a metropolitan area...
- Texas Section 451.002 - Liberal Construction
This chapter is to be construed liberally to carry out its purposes. Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.
SUBCHAPTER B POWERS OF AUTHORITIES
- Texas Section 451.003 - Chapter Not Applicable To Bicounty Area
This chapter does not apply to an area composed of the territory of two contiguous counties each of which contains a municipality having a population...
- Texas Section 451.051 - Powers Applicable To Confirmed Authority
This subchapter applies only to an authority that has been confirmed. Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.
- Texas Section 451.052 - Nature Of Authority
(a) An authority: (1) is a public political entity and corporate body; (2) has perpetual succession; and (3) exercises public and essential governmental functions. (b)...
- Texas Section 451.053 - Responsibility For Control Of Authority
Except as provided by Section 451.106, the board is responsible for the management, operation, and control of an authority and its property. Acts 1995, 74th...
- Texas Section 451.054 - General Powers Of Authority
(a) An authority has any power necessary or convenient to carry out this chapter or to effect a purpose of this chapter. (b) An authority...
- Texas Section 451.055 - Contracts; Grants And Loans
(a) An authority may contract with any person. (b) An authority may accept a grant or loan from any person. Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch....
- Texas Section 451.056 - Operation Of Transit Authority System
(a) An authority may: (1) acquire, construct, develop, own, operate, and maintain a transit authority system in the territory of the authority, including the territory...
- Texas Section 451.057 - Acquisition Of Property By Agreement
An authority may acquire rolling stock or other property under a contract or trust agreement, including a conditional sales contract, lease, and equipment trust certificate....
- Texas Section 451.058 - Use And Acquisition Of Property Of Others
(a) For a purpose described by Section 451.056(a)(1) and as necessary or useful in the construction, repair, maintenance, or operation of the transit authority system,...
- Texas Section 451.059 - Eminent Domain Proceedings
(a) An eminent domain proceeding by an authority is initiated by the adoption by the board of a resolution that: (1) describes the property interest...
- Texas Section 451.060 - Agreement With Utilities, Carriers
An authority may agree with any other public or private utility, communication system, common carrier, or transportation system for: (1) the joint use of the...
- Texas Section 451.061 - Fares And Other Charges
(a) An authority shall impose reasonable and nondiscriminatory fares, tolls, charges, rents, and other compensation for the use of the transit authority system sufficient to...
- Texas Section 451.0611 - Enforcement Of Fares And Other Charges; Penalties
(a) A board by resolution may prohibit the use of the public transportation system by a person who fails to possess evidence showing that the...
- Texas Section 451.0612 - Fare Enforcement Officers
(a) An authority may employ persons to serve as fare enforcement officers to enforce the payment of fares for use of the public transportation system...
- Texas Section 451.062 - Power To Enter Real Property
(a) The engineers, employees, and other representatives of an authority may go on any real property within the boundaries of the authority to: (1) make...
- Texas Section 451.063 - Tax Exemption
The property, revenue, and income of an authority are exempt from state and local taxes. Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept....
- Texas Section 451.064 - Parking Areas: Certain Authorities
(a) An authority created before 1980 in which the principal municipality has a population of less than 1.9 million may, with the approval of the...
- Texas Section 451.065 - Roadways, Trails, Lighting: Certain Authorities
(a) An authority confirmed before July 1, 1985, may, in the authority: (1) construct or maintain a highway, local or arterial street, thoroughfare, or other...
- Texas Section 451.066 - Spending Limitation: Trails And Lighting In Certain Authorities
(a) An authority confirmed before 1980 in which the principal municipality has a population of more than 1.9 million may not spend, during any five-year...
- Texas Section 451.067 - Emergency Medical Services: Certain Authorities
An authority in which the principal municipality has a population of less than 320,000 may provide emergency medical services. Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165,...
- Texas Section 451.068 - Free Fares Program: Certain Authorities
(a) An authority confirmed before July 1, 1985, and in which the principal municipality has a population of less than 850,000 may, through the operation...
- Texas Section 451.070 - Elections
(a) In an election ordered by a board: (1) the board shall give notice of the election by publication in a newspaper of general circulation...
- Texas Section 451.071 - Referendum For Rail Plan; Certain Authorities
(a) This section applies only to an authority confirmed before July 1, 1985, in which the principal municipality has a population of less than 850,000....
SUBCHAPTER C MANAGEMENT OF AUTHORITY
- Texas Section 451.072 - General Authority To Call Election: Certain Authorities
(a) This section applies only to an authority in which the principal municipality has a population of more than 1.9 million. (b) The board of...
- Texas Section 451.101 - Board Powers
A board may: (1) employ a general manager and other persons necessary for the conduct of the affairs of the authority, including operating or management...
- Texas Section 451.102 - Budget
(a) A board shall adopt an annual operating budget of all major expenditures by type and amount. The board shall adopt the budget before the...
- Texas Section 451.103 - Operating Expenditures
An authority may not spend for operations money in excess of the total amount specified for operating expenses in the annual operating budget. Acts 1995,...
- Texas Section 451.104 - Investment Powers: Certain Authorities
An authority created before 1980 and in which the principal municipality has a population of less than 1.9 million has the same investment powers as...
- Texas Section 451.105 - Depository; Deposit Of Funds
(a) A board shall designate one or more banks as depositories for authority funds. (b) All funds of an authority shall be deposited in one...
- Texas Section 451.106 - General Manager; Management Policies: Certain Authorities
(a) The board of an authority in which the principal municipality has a population of less than 850,000 or more than 1.9 million shall employ...
- Texas Section 451.107 - Rules
(a) The board by resolution may adopt rules for: (1) the safe and efficient operation and maintenance of the transit authority system; (2) the use...
- Texas Section 451.1075 - Prohibition Of Consumption Of Alcoholic Beverage
(a) A board by resolution may prohibit the consumption of an alcoholic beverage on property an authority possesses or controls. The resolution must describe with...
- Texas Section 451.108 - Peace Officers
(a) An authority may commission and employ peace officers. (b) An authority created before 1980 in which the principal municipality has a population of less...
- Texas Section 451.109 - Advisory Committee
(a) A board may establish one or more advisory committees to make recommendations to the board or the general manager on the operation of the...
- Texas Section 451.110 - Purchases: Competitive Bidding
(a) Except as provided by Subsection (c) and by Subchapter Q, a board may not contract for the construction of an improvement or the purchase...
- Texas Section 451.111 - Purchases: Notice Of Noncompetitive Bid Proposals
(a) Except as provided by Subchapter Q, unless the posting requirement in Subsection (b) is satisfied, a board may not let a contract that is:...
- Texas Section 451.112 - Conflicts Of Interest: Board Members
Chapter 171, Local Government Code, applies to a board member of an authority, except that an authority created before 1980 in which the principal municipality...
SUBCHAPTER C-1 ADDITIONAL MANAGEMENT PROVISIONS FOR CERTAIN AUTHORITIES
- Texas Section 451.113 - Driving On Certain Authority Right-of-way; Penalty
(a) A person commits an offense if, as the operator of a motor vehicle, the person drives on a designated right-of-way of an authority that...
- Texas Section 451.131 - Applicability
This subchapter applies only to an authority confirmed before July 1, 1985, in which the principal municipality has a population of less than one million....
- Texas Section 451.132 - Five-year Capital Improvement Plan
(a) The board shall adopt a five-year plan for capital improvement projects that supports the strategic goals outlined in Section 451.135 and that: (1) describes...
- Texas Section 451.133 - Operating Expenses And Capital Expenditures
(a) An authority may not spend for capital improvements money in excess of the total amount allocated for major capital expenditures in the annual budget....
- Texas Section 451.134 - Operating Reserve Account
(a) The board shall establish, in an account separate from other funds, a reserve account in an amount that is not less than an amount...
- Texas Section 451.135 - Strategic Plan
(a) The board shall adopt a strategic plan that establishes the authority's mission and goals and summarizes planned activities to achieve the mission and goals....
- Texas Section 451.136 - Rail Safety Plan And Reports
(a) The board shall adopt and the general manager shall implement a rail safety plan in accordance with federal and industry standards for all authority...
- Texas Section 451.137 - Competitive Bids For And Purchase Of Transit Services
(a) Except as provided by Subsection (f), after providing notice of a proposal, a board must submit to competitive bids a contract for and must...
- Texas Section 451.138 - Public Involvement Policy
(a) The board shall adopt a policy of involving the public in board decisions regarding authority policies. The policy must: (1) ensure that the public...
SUBCHAPTER D STATION OR TERMINAL COMPLEX SYSTEMS
- Texas Section 451.139 - Issuance Of Bonds For Self-insurance Or Retirement Or Pension Fund Reserves
(a) An authority may issue bonds only in an amount necessary for managing or funding retiree pension benefit obligations for pension plans existing as of...
- Texas Section 451.151 - Station Or Terminal Complex: System Plan
(a) An authority may not acquire an interest in real property for a station or terminal complex unless the station or terminal complex is included...
- Texas Section 451.152 - Station Or Terminal Complex: Facilities
A station or terminal complex of an authority: (1) must include adequate provision for the transfer of passengers among the various means of transportation available...
- Texas Section 451.153 - Approval Of Municipality
The location of a station or terminal complex in a municipality or in the extraterritorial jurisdiction of a municipality must be approved, as to conformity...
- Texas Section 451.154 - Station Or Terminal Complex: Limitation On Real Property Acquisition
(a) An interest in real property may not be acquired for station or terminal complex facilities described by Section 451.152(2) unless the property: (1) is...
SUBCHAPTER E REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FACILITIES IN STATIONS OR TERMINAL COMPLEXES
- Texas Section 451.155 - Transfer Of Real Property In Station Or Terminal Complex
(a) An authority may transfer to any person by any means, including a sale or lease, an interest in real property in a station or...
- Texas Section 451.201 - Definition
In this subchapter, "regional economic development facilities" includes only those facilities that will lead to the creation of new jobs, maintain existing jobs, or generally...
- Texas Section 451.202 - Application Of Subchapter Limited To Certain Authorities
This subchapter applies only to an authority created before 1980 in which the principal municipality has a population of less than 1.9 million. Acts 1995,...
- Texas Section 451.203 - Station Or Terminal Complex: Regional Economic Development Facilities In Certain Authorities
In addition to other facilities authorized by Subchapter D, a station or terminal complex may include regional economic development facilities that are approved by: (1)...
- Texas Section 451.204 - Contracts For Regional Economic Development Facilities
(a) An authority may: (1) plan, acquire, establish, develop, construct, improve, maintain, operate, regulate, protect, and police the regional economic development facility portion of a...
- Texas Section 451.205 - Station Or Terminal Complex: Regional Economic Development Facilities Additional Tax
(a) An authority may increase its sales and use tax rate, not to exceed the rate authorized by Sections 451.404 and 451.405, to provide for...
- Texas Section 451.206 - Use Of Revenue For Regional Economic Development Facilities
(a) Revenue received from the collection of the authority's sales and use tax at the rate equal to the amount of the rate increase adopted...
SUBCHAPTER F SPECIAL PROGRAMS AND SERVICES
- Texas Section 451.207 - Continuation Of Tax Rate Increase
On the expiration of the dedication of an authority's sales and use tax rate increase revenue as provided by Section 451.206, the board shall decrease...
- Texas Section 451.251 - Contract Goals For Disadvantaged Businesses
An authority that does not have an up-to-date disadvantaged business enterprise program, as defined by 49 C.F.R. Part 23, to assist minorities and women in...
- Texas Section 451.252 - Minority And Disadvantaged Individuals Program: Certain Authorities
(a) The board of an authority confirmed before July 1, 1985, shall establish a program to encourage participation in contracts of the authority by businesses...
- Texas Section 451.253 - Minority And Women-owned Business Program: Certain Authorities
(a) An authority with a regional economic development facility approved under Subchapter E may establish a program reasonably designed to increase the participation of minority...
- Texas Section 451.254 - Program For Persons With Physical Disabilities: Certain Authorities
(a) The board of an authority confirmed before July 1, 1985, shall promote the availability and use of transportation services of the authority by persons...
- Texas Section 451.255 - Transportation For Jobs Program Participants
(a) An authority shall contract with the Texas Department of Human Services to provide, in accordance with federal law, transportation services to a person who:...
SUBCHAPTER H BONDS
- Texas Section 451.256 - Waiver Of Federal Requirements
If, before implementing Section 451.255, the Texas Department of Human Services determines that a waiver or authorization from a federal agency is necessary for implementation,...
- Texas Section 451.351 - Definition
In this subchapter, "bond" includes a note. Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.
- Texas Section 451.352 - Power To Issue Bonds
(a) An authority may issue bonds at any time and for any amounts it considers necessary or appropriate for the acquisition, construction, repair, equipping, improvement,...
- Texas Section 451.353 - Bond Terms
(a) An authority's bonds are fully negotiable. An authority may make the bonds redeemable before maturity at the price and subject to the terms and...
- Texas Section 451.354 - Sale
An authority's bonds may be sold at a public or private sale as determined by the board to be the more advantageous. Acts 1995, 74th...
- Texas Section 451.355 - Approval; Registration
(a) An authority's bonds and the records relating to their issuance shall be submitted to the attorney general for examination before the bonds may be...
- Texas Section 451.356 - Incontestability
Bonds are incontestable after they are: (1) approved by the attorney general; (2) registered by the comptroller; and (3) sold and delivered to the purchaser....
- Texas Section 451.357 - Security Pledged
(a) To secure the payment of an authority's bonds, the authority may: (1) pledge all or part of revenue realized from any tax that the...
- Texas Section 451.358 - Pledge Of Revenue Limited
The expenses of operation and maintenance of a transit authority system, including salaries, labor, materials, and repairs necessary to provide efficient service and every other...
- Texas Section 451.359 - Refunding Bonds
An authority may issue refunding bonds for the purposes and in the manner authorized by general law, including Chapter 1207, Government Code. Acts 1995, 74th...
- Texas Section 451.360 - Bonds As Authorized Investments
(a) An authority's bonds are authorized investments for: (1) a bank; (2) a savings bank; (3) a trust company; (4) a savings and loan association;...
- Texas Section 451.361 - Exchange Of Bonds For Existing System
An authority's revenue bonds may be exchanged, in lieu of cash, for the property of all or part of an existing transit authority system to...
- Texas Section 451.362 - Short-term Bonds
(a) Notwithstanding other provisions of this chapter and except as provided by Subsections (c) and (d), the board, by order or resolution, may issue bonds...
- Texas Section 451.3625 - Bonds For Rail System; Certain Authorities
(a) This section applies only to an authority confirmed before July 1, 1985, in which the principal municipality has a population of less than 850,000....
SUBCHAPTER I TAXATION
- Texas Section 451.363 - Tax Exemption
The interest on an authority's bonds is exempt from state and local taxes. Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.
- Texas Section 451.401 - General Power Of Taxation
An authority may impose any kind of tax except an ad valorem property tax. Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1,
- Texas Section 451.402 - Voter Approval Required For Tax
(a) An authority may not impose a tax or increase the rate of an existing tax unless a proposition proposing the imposition or rate increase...
- Texas Section 451.403 - Authority Tax Code And Rules
(a) The board shall, before an election to authorize a tax, adopt a complete tax code and rules providing for the nature of the tax,...
- Texas Section 451.404 - Sales And Use Tax
(a) The board, subject to Section 451.402, may impose for an authority a sales and use tax at the rate of: (1) one-quarter of one...
- Texas Section 451.405 - Maximum Tax Rate In Authority Area
(a) An authority may not adopt a sales and use tax rate, including a rate increase, that when combined with the rates of all sales...
- Texas Section 451.406 - Initial Sales Tax: Effective Date
The adoption of an authority's sales and use tax takes effect on the first day of the second calendar quarter beginning after the date the...
- Texas Section 451.407 - Rate Decrease: Sales And Use Tax
The board may: (1) decrease by order the authority's sales and use tax rate; or (2) order an election to decrease the rate. Acts 1995,...
- Texas Section 451.408 - Rate Increase: Sales And Use Tax
(a) The board may order an election to increase the authority's sales and use tax rate. (b) The registered voters of an authority, by petition,...
- Texas Section 451.409 - Sales And Use Tax Rate Increase: Petition And Election
(a) A petition to increase the rate of an authority's sales and use tax is valid only if it is submitted to the board and...
- Texas Section 451.410 - Sales And Use Tax Increase Or Decrease: Ballots
In an election for the increase or decrease of an authority's sales and use tax, the ballots shall be printed to provide for voting for...
- Texas Section 451.411 - Results Of Election; Notice
(a) If a majority of the votes received in an election to increase or decrease the rate of an authority's sales and use tax favor...
- Texas Section 451.412 - Effective Date Of Tax Rate Change
A rate increase or decrease in an authority's sales and use tax takes effect on: (1) the first day of the first calendar quarter that...
- Texas Section 451.413 - Tax Effective Dates After Election Contest
(a) The contestant of an election under this subchapter shall send the comptroller by registered or certified mail within 10 days after the date the...
- Texas Section 451.414 - Maximum Rate Of Vehicle Emissions Tax
(a) Each year that a board imposes a motor vehicle emissions tax, the board shall set the motor vehicle emissions tax rate as a percentage...
- Texas Section 451.415 - Exemptions
(a) The following vehicles are exempt from a vehicle emissions tax imposed by an authority on the owner of the vehicle: (1) a vehicle that...
- Texas Section 451.416 - Emissions Tax Year
(a) A motor vehicle emissions tax year begins on April 1 of each year and is divided into quarters. (b) A tax accruing during the...
- Texas Section 451.417 - Emissions Tax Payments: Delinquency
Motor vehicle emissions taxes for a tax year become payable on February 1 and become delinquent if not paid by April 1 of the tax...
- Texas Section 451.418 - Collection Of Emissions Taxes By County Assessor-collector
(a) The county assessor-collector of a county in which an authority has territory shall collect the authority's motor vehicle emissions taxes from residents of the...
- Texas Section 451.419 - Penalties And Interest: Emissions Taxes
(a) The following penalties apply to the late payment of motor vehicle emissions taxes: Date Tax PaidPenaltyduring the first month of delinquencyone percentduring the second...
SUBCHAPTER J FINANCIAL AND PERFORMANCE AUDITS
- Texas Section 451.420 - Board Rules: Emissions Taxes
The board may adopt rules relating to the collection and payment of the authority's motor vehicle emissions taxes. Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec....
- Texas Section 451.451 - Financial Audits
(a) The board of an authority shall have an annual audit of the affairs of the authority prepared by an independent certified public accountant or...
- Texas Section 451.452 - Review Of Audit: Certain Authorities
(a) The board shall deliver a copy of each audit prepared under Section 451.451 to: (1) the governor; (2) the lieutenant governor; (3) the speaker...
- Texas Section 451.454 - Performance Audits: Certain Authorities
(a) The board of an authority in which the principal municipality has a population of more than 1.9 million or less than 850,000 shall contract...
- Texas Section 451.455 - Computation Of Performance Indicators
(a) An authority's operating cost per passenger is computed by dividing the authority's annual operating cost by the passenger trips for the same period. (b)...
- Texas Section 451.456 - Performance Audit Response; Hearing
(a) An authority for which a performance audit is conducted under Section 451.454 shall prepare a written response to the audit report. The response must...
- Texas Section 451.457 - Delivery Of Report And Response
An authority required by Section 451.454 to contract for a performance audit shall, before February 1 of every second odd-numbered year, deliver a copy of...
- Texas Section 451.458 - Internal Auditor
(a) This section applies only to an authority confirmed before July 1, 1985, in which the principal municipality has a population of less than 850,000....
SUBCHAPTER K BOARDS
- Texas Section 451.460 - Annual Report
(a) This section applies only to an authority confirmed before July 1, 1985, in which the principal municipality has a population of less than 850,000....
- Texas Section 451.501 - Board Membership
(a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), a board is composed of: (1) five members; plus (2) the number of additional members determined under Subsection...
- Texas Section 451.502 - Appointment Of Members
(a) The five board members under Section 451.501(a)(1) are appointed by the governing body of the principal municipality, except in an authority having a principal...
- Texas Section 451.5021 - Board Composition; Certain Authorities
(a) This section applies only to the board of an authority created before July 1, 1985, in which the principal municipality has a population of...
- Texas Section 451.503 - Appointments Panel
(a) The mayor of the most populous municipality represented on a panel under Section 451.502 serves as the presiding officer of the panel. (b) The...
- Texas Section 451.5035 - Designation Of Alternate By Mayor
(a) This section applies only to an authority in which the principal municipality has a population of less than 320,000. (b) The mayor of a...
- Texas Section 451.504 - Board Vacancies
(a) A vacancy on a board is filled by the person or entity that appointed the member who was in the position that is vacant....
- Texas Section 451.505 - Board Terms
(a) The term of board membership is two years. (b) The terms of members of a board are staggered if the authority was created before...
- Texas Section 451.506 - Term Limitations
(a) A member of the board may be reappointed except as provided by this section. (b) An individual may not serve more than eight years...
- Texas Section 451.507 - Board Membership: Residency In Authority
A member of the board must be a qualified voter residing in the authority. Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1,
- Texas Section 451.508 - Removal By Board
A board member may be removed from office by the other members of the board because of a ground for removal described by Section 451.510....
- Texas Section 451.509 - Removal By Appointing Person Or Entity
(a) In an authority in which the principal municipality has a population of less than 850,000 and in which the authority's sales and use tax...
- Texas Section 451.510 - Grounds For Removal From Board
The grounds for removal of a member of a board are: (1) inefficiency in office; (2) nonfeasance or malfeasance in office; (3) not having at...
- Texas Section 451.511 - Removal Of Board Member: Notice And Hearing
(a) The person or entity proposing to remove a board member under Section 451.508 or 451.509 shall give the member a written statement of the...
- Texas Section 451.512 - Ground For Removal: Validity Of Board Acts
(a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), in an authority in which the principal municipality has a population of less than 850,000 or more than...
- Texas Section 451.513 - Recall Of Members: Certain Authorities
(a) A board member of an authority that has a principal municipality with a population of more than 850,000 may be removed, as provided by...
- Texas Section 451.514 - Board Meetings: When Held
(a) A board shall hold at least one regular meeting each month to transact the business of the authority. The board by resolution recorded in...
- Texas Section 451.515 - Board Meetings: Voting
(a) An action of a board requires a vote of a majority of the members of the board present at a board meeting unless the...
- Texas Section 451.516 - Increase Of Membership: Continuity
If the membership of a board is increased under Section 451.501, the board as constituted immediately before the increase may continue as the board of...
- Texas Section 451.517 - Board Meetings: Rules And Bylaws
A board by resolution may adopt rules and bylaws for the conduct of board meetings. These rules and bylaws shall be recorded in the minutes...
- Texas Section 451.518 - Board Meetings: Notice
In addition to notice required by Chapter 551, Government Code, a board shall post a board meeting notice in the authority's administrative offices and at...
- Texas Section 451.519 - Board Members: Expenses; Per Diem
(a) An authority shall reimburse a board member for all necessary expenses incurred in the discharge of official authority duties. (b) Except as provided by...
SUBCHAPTER L ADDITION OF TERRITORY
- Texas Section 451.520 - Board Officers And Secretaries
(a) The board shall elect from among its membership a presiding officer, an assistant presiding officer, and a secretary. This subsection does not apply to...
- Texas Section 451.551 - Addition Of Territory By Municipal Annexation
When a municipality that is part of an authority annexes territory that before the annexation is not part of the authority, the annexed territory becomes...
- Texas Section 451.552 - Addition Of Municipality By Election
(a) The territory of a municipality that is not a part of an authority may be added to an authority if: (1) any part of...
- Texas Section 451.553 - Addition Of County Area By Election
(a) The territory of a part of a county that is not a part of an authority and that is designated by the commissioners court...
- Texas Section 451.554 - Board Approval Of Annexation: Effective Date
(a) The addition of territory annexed under Section 451.551, or approved under Section 451.552 or 451.553, does not take effect if, before the effective date...
SUBCHAPTER M WITHDRAWAL OF TERRITORY FROM AUTHORITY
- Texas Section 451.555 - Added Territory: Effective Date Of Taxes
(a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), a tax imposed by an authority takes effect in territory added to the authority when the addition takes...
- Texas Section 451.601 - Unit Of Election Defined
In this subchapter, "unit of election" means: (1) a municipality, including a principal municipality; (2) an unincorporated area designated by a commissioners court under Section...
- Texas Section 451.602 - Authorities Covered By Subchapter
Except as provided by Section 451.617, this subchapter applies only to an authority in which the principal municipality has a population of less than 850,000...
- Texas Section 451.603 - Withdrawal Of Unit Of Election
(a) The governing body of a unit of election may order an election to withdraw the unit of election from an authority. (b) On the...
- Texas Section 451.604 - Petition For Withdrawal Election
(a) At the request of a registered voter of a unit of election in an authority, the municipal secretary or other clerk or administrator of...
- Texas Section 451.605 - Review Of Petition
(a) The secretary, clerk, or administrator of a unit of election in which a petition for withdrawal from an authority is filed shall examine the...
- Texas Section 451.606 - Invalid Petition
(a) The governing body of a unit of election that receives an invalid petition shall reject the petition. (b) A petition that is rejected is...
- Texas Section 451.607 - Election
(a) An election to withdraw from an authority ordered under this subchapter must be held on the first applicable uniform election date occurring after the...
- Texas Section 451.608 - Result Of Withdrawal Election
(a) If a majority of the votes received on the measure in an election held under Section 451.607 favor the proposition, the authority continues in...
- Texas Section 451.609 - Effect Of Withdrawal
(a) On the effective date of a withdrawal from an authority: (1) the authority shall, except as provided by Section 451.610, cease providing transportation services...
- Texas Section 451.610 - Continuation Of Services To Persons With Disabilities
(a) An authority shall continue to provide transportation services for persons with disabilities in a withdrawn unit of election. The authority may not charge a...
- Texas Section 451.6101 - Continuation Of Services To Persons With Disabilities; Alternative Program
(a) This section applies only to an authority to which Subchapter C-1 applies. (b) Notwithstanding Section 451.610, an authority shall establish an alternative program to...
- Texas Section 451.611 - Determination Of Total Amount Of Financial Obligations Of Withdrawn Unit
(a) The net financial obligation of a withdrawn unit of election to the authority is an amount equal to: (1) the gross financial obligations of...
- Texas Section 451.612 - Certification Of Net Financial Obligation Of Unit
(a) The board shall certify to the governing body of a withdrawn unit of election and to the comptroller the net financial obligation of the...
- Texas Section 451.613 - Collection Of Sales And Use Tax After Withdrawal
(a) Until the amount of revenue from an authority's sales and use tax collected in a withdrawn unit of election after the effective date of...
- Texas Section 451.614 - Refunds Of Excess Sales And Use Tax Revenue
(a) The comptroller shall refund to the unit of election the amount of the authority's sales and use tax revenue: (1) that is in excess...
- Texas Section 451.615 - Use Of Refunded Revenue
(a) The governing body of a unit of election that receives a refund under Section 451.614 may use the refund only for public purposes directly...
- Texas Section 451.616 - Revenue From Withdrawn Unit For Providing Services For Persons With Disabilities
(a) The comptroller shall withhold from the amount of sales and use tax revenue refunded to a unit of election that has withdrawn from an...
- Texas Section 451.617 - Withdrawal: Alternative Method For Certain Authorities
(a) In an authority created before 1980 in which the principal municipality has a population of less than 1.9 million, a unit of election, other...
SUBCHAPTER N CREATION OF AUTHORITY
- Texas Section 451.618 - Withdrawal: Alternative Method For Certain Emergency Services Districts
(a) An emergency services district described by Section 451.601(3) may withdraw from an authority, in addition to any other manner provided by law, by a...
- Texas Section 451.651 - Initial Proceedings To Create Authority
(a) The governing body of an alternate municipality shall, on receipt of a petition requesting the creation of an authority and signed by not fewer...
- Texas Section 451.652 - Notice Of Hearing
(a) Notice of the time and place of the hearing on the creation of an authority, including a description of the area proposed to be...
- Texas Section 451.653 - Conduct Of Hearing
(a) The governing body of the alternate municipality shall conduct the hearing on the creation of the authority at the place and time specified in...
- Texas Section 451.654 - Ordinance Of Creation; Findings
(a) The governing body of an alternate municipality, after hearing the evidence presented at the hearing, shall adopt an ordinance creating an authority if the...
- Texas Section 451.655 - Municipality To Fund Board
The alternate municipality shall fund the board for research and planning purposes until the confirmation and tax election. Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec....
- Texas Section 451.656 - Board To Order Election
The original board shall order a confirmation and tax election: (1) when the board determines that implementation of the authority is feasible; (2) after the...
- Texas Section 451.657 - Commissioners Court To Designate Election Areas
(a) Before the 31st day after the date a commissioners court receives a notice under Section 451.656(3), the commissioners court by order shall designate not...
- Texas Section 451.658 - Election Notice
In addition to notice required by the Election Code, an election notice must contain a description of the nature and rate of any proposed tax....
- Texas Section 451.659 - Proposition
The board, in ordering an election under this subchapter, shall submit to the voters the following proposition: "Shall the creation of (name of authority) be...
- Texas Section 451.660 - Conduct Of Election: Separate Results For Unit Of Election
The election shall be conducted so that votes are separately tabulated and canvassed and that the result is declared in each unit of election in...
- Texas Section 451.661 - Results Of Election; Order
(a) The board shall declare the results of the election separately by each unit of election. In each unit of election in which a majority...
- Texas Section 451.662 - Costs Of Board
(a) The alternate municipality shall pay the costs incurred under Section 451.519(a) by members of the board before the authority receives revenue. (b) The authority,...
- Texas Section 451.663 - Composition Of Board On Confirmation
Except as required by Subchapter K, the composition of the board is not changed by confirmation of the authority. Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165,...
- Texas Section 451.664 - Cost Of Election
The alternate municipality shall pay the cost of the confirmation and tax election. Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.
SUBCHAPTER O ADVANCED TRANSPORTATION DISTRICT
- Texas Section 451.665 - Expiration Of Unconfirmed Authority
An authority, the existence of which has not been confirmed, ceases on the earlier of: (1) the third anniversary of the effective date of the...
- Texas Section 451.701 - Definitions
In this subchapter: (1) "Advanced transportation" means light rail, commuter rail, fixed guideways, traffic management systems, bus ways, bus lanes, technologically advanced bus transit vehicles...
- Texas Section 451.702 - Election Authorized
(a) The board of an authority in which the sales and use tax is imposed at a rate of one-half of one percent and in...
- Texas Section 451.703 - Conduct Of Initial Election: Separate Result
The election shall be conducted so that votes are separately tabulated and canvassed and that the result is declared in each unit of election in...
- Texas Section 451.704 - Results Of Election; Order
(a) If a majority of the votes cast in the principal municipality of the authority are in favor of the proposition, the district is created...
- Texas Section 451.705 - Subsequent Elections
(a) If the initial election under Section 451.702 is held only in the principal municipality, or if the voters of another municipality or the unincorporated...
- Texas Section 451.706 - Limitation On Tax Rate
(a) The combined rate of all sales and use taxes imposed by the district and all other political subdivisions of this state may not exceed...
- Texas Section 451.707 - Governance Of District
(a) The board of the authority shall act as the governing body of the district and is responsible for the management, operation, and control of...
- Texas Section 451.708 - District Assets And Recordkeeping
(a) An asset of the district shall be held in the name of the authority. (b) The authority shall keep separate books and accounting records...
- Texas Section 451.709 - Nature Of District
The district is a governmental unit under Chapter 101, Civil Practice and Remedies Code, and the operations of the district are not proprietary functions for...
SUBCHAPTER P LOCAL CONTROL OF PEACE OFFICER EMPLOYMENT MATTERS IN CERTAIN AUTHORITIES
- Texas Section 451.710 - Annexation Of Territory By Municipality
On annexation by a municipality that is in the district, territory that is not in the district becomes part of the district. Added by Acts...
- Texas Section 451.751 - Applicability
This subchapter applies only to an authority in which the principal municipality has a population of more than 1.5 million. Added by Acts 2001, 77th...
- Texas Section 451.752 - Definitions
In this subchapter: (1) "Association" means an organization in which peace officers employed by the authority participate and that exists for the purpose, wholly or...
- Texas Section 451.753 - General Provisions Relating To Agreements, Recognition, And Strikes
(a) An authority may not be denied local control over the wages, salaries, rates of pay, hours of work, or other terms and conditions of...
- Texas Section 451.754 - Recognition Of Peace Officer Association
(a) In an authority that chooses to meet and confer under this subchapter, the public employer shall recognize an association submitting a petition for recognition...
- Texas Section 451.755 - Open Records
(a) A proposed agreement and a document prepared and used by the authority in connection with a proposed agreement are available to the public under...
- Texas Section 451.756 - Ratification And Enforceability Of Agreement
(a) An agreement under this subchapter is enforceable and binding on the public employer, the recognized association, and the peace officers covered by the agreement...
- Texas Section 451.757 - Agreement Supersedes Conflicting Provisions
(a) A written agreement ratified under this subchapter preempts, during the term of the agreement and to the extent of any conflict, all contrary state...
- Texas Section 451.758 - Election To Repeal Agreement
(a) Not later than the 60th day after the date an agreement is ratified by the public employer and the association, a petition signed by...