SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS
- Texas Section 452.001 - Definitions
In this chapter: (1) "Authority" means a regional transportation authority created under this chapter or Chapter 683, Acts of the 66th Legislature, Regular Session, 1979....
- Texas Section 452.002 - Determination Of Population
In this chapter, population of a municipality or area is determined by the most recent federal census unless there has been no federal census in...
- Texas Section 452.003 - Municipalities May Provide Transportation Services
This chapter does not prohibit a municipality from providing public or complementary transportation services. Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1,
SUBCHAPTER B POWERS OF AUTHORITIES
- Texas Section 452.004 - Executive Committee Of Authority Consisting Of One Subregion
The executive committee of an authority that consists of one subregion, other than an authority created by a contiguous municipality, is the board for the...
- Texas Section 452.051 - 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 452.052 - 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 452.053 - Responsibility For Control Of Authority
Except as provided by Section 452.104, the executive committee is responsible for the management, operation, and control of an authority and its property. Acts 1995,...
- Texas Section 452.054 - 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 452.055 - Contracts; Grants And Loans
(a) An authority may contract with any person. (b) An authority may accept a grant or loan from any person. (c) An authority may enter...
- Texas Section 452.056 - Operation Of Public Transportation System
(a) An authority may: (1) acquire, construct, develop, plan, own, operate, and maintain a public transportation system in the territory of the authority, including the...
- Texas Section 452.0561 - Liability Of Transportation Entity Providing Public Transportation
(a) This section applies only to a transportation entity created under: (1) Subtitle C or D of Title 5 or Chapter 172, 173, or 174;...
- Texas Section 452.057 - 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 452.058 - Use And Acquisition Of Property Of Others
(a) For a purpose described by Section 452.056(a)(1) and as necessary or useful in the construction, repair, maintenance, or operation of the public transportation system,...
- Texas Section 452.059 - Eminent Domain Proceedings
(a) An eminent domain proceeding by an authority is initiated by the adoption by the executive committee of a resolution that: (1) describes the property...
- Texas Section 452.060 - 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 in the...
- Texas Section 452.061 - Fares And Other Charges
(a) An authority shall impose reasonable and nondiscriminatory fares, tolls, charges, rents, and other compensation for the use of the public transportation system sufficient to...
- Texas Section 452.0611 - Enforcement Of Fares And Other Charges; Penalties
(a) An executive committee by resolution may prohibit the use of the public transportation system by a person who fails to possess evidence showing that...
- Texas Section 452.0612 - Fare Enforcement Officers
(a) The 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 452.0613 - Enforcement Of High Occupancy Vehicle Lane Usage; Penalties
(a) An executive committee by resolution may regulate or prohibit improper entrance into, exit from, and vehicle occupancy in high occupancy vehicle lanes operated, managed,...
- Texas Section 452.062 - Insurance
(a) An authority may insure, through purchased insurance policies or self-insurance programs, or both, the legal liability of the authority and of its contractors and...
- Texas Section 452.063 - 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 452.064 - Light Rail System: Regulatory Exemption
(a) An authority that constructs or operates or contracts with another entity to construct or operate a light rail mass transit system is not subject...
- Texas Section 452.065 - Electric Power For Rail System: Certain Authorities
(a) An authority in which the public transportation system includes or is to include passenger rail service propelled by electric power and in which all...
SUBCHAPTER C MANAGEMENT OF AUTHORITY
- Texas Section 452.066 - Elections
(a) In an election ordered by the executive committee: (1) the executive committee shall give notice of the election by publication in a newspaper of...
- Texas Section 452.101 - Executive Committee: Powers
The executive committee may: (1) employ and prescribe the compensation for a chief executive officer whom the committee may designate as the general manager or...
- Texas Section 452.102 - Investments
(a) The executive committee may invest authority funds in: (1) direct and indirect obligations, including treasury receipts evidencing ownership of future interest and principal payments...
- Texas Section 452.103 - Depository; Deposit Of Funds
(a) The executive committee shall designate one or more banks as depositories for authority funds. (b) All funds of an authority that are not otherwise...
- Texas Section 452.104 - Chief Executive: Duties
(a) The general manager or executive director shall administer the daily operation of an authority. (b) In conformity with the policy of the executive committee,...
- Texas Section 452.105 - Rules
(a) The executive committee by resolution may adopt rules for the: (1) safe and efficient operation and maintenance of the public transportation system; (2) use...
- Texas Section 452.1055 - 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 452.106 - Procurement Rules
(a) The executive committee may adopt and enforce procurement procedures, guidelines, and rules: (1) defining the terms in and implementing Sections 452.107 and 452.108(a) and...
- Texas Section 452.107 - Purchases: Competitive Bidding
(a) Except as provided by Subsection (c), an authority may not award a contract for construction, services, or property, other than real property, except through...
- Texas Section 452.108 - Duration Of Contracts And Delegation Of Powers
(a) An authority may contract for payment with debt obligations and for performance and payments to extend longer than one fiscal year if the contract...
- Texas Section 452.109 - Explanation Of Contract Awards In Certain Authorities
(a) A subregional board created under Subchapter O that governs an authority consisting of one subregion shall document the reasons for the award of a...
- Texas Section 452.1095 - Exemption From Other Contracting Law For Certain Authorities
(a) Chapter 2269, Government Code, does not apply to an authority consisting of one subregion governed by a subregional board created under Subchapter O. (b)...
- Texas Section 452.110 - Peace Officers
(a) The executive committee may establish a security force and provide for the employment of security personnel. (b) The executive committee may commission an employee...
- Texas Section 452.111 - Extraordinary Vote Required In Certain Authorities
A subregional board created under Subchapter O that governs an authority consisting of one subregion may not, except by a two-thirds vote of the board:...
- Texas Section 452.112 - Advisory Committees In Certain Authorities
(a) A subregional board created under Subchapter O that governs an authority consisting of one subregion may appoint one or more committees for any purpose...
- Texas Section 452.113 - Budget Recommendations
The executive committee shall: (1) receive recommendations for the annual budget from each subregional board; (2) obtain approval from each subregional board of the final...
- Texas Section 452.114 - Budget In Authority Created By Contiguous Municipality
(a) The executive committee of an authority created by a contiguous municipality shall, not later than the 60th day before the beginning of the authority's...
- Texas Section 452.115 - Public Hearing On Fare And Service Changes In Certain Authorities
(a) An authority consisting of one subregion governed by a subregional board created under Subchapter O must hold a public hearing on: (1) any fare...
- Texas Section 452.116 - Public Hearing On Fare And Service Changes In Certain Authorities: Exceptions
(a) A public hearing under Section 452.115 is not required for: (1) a reduced or free promotional fare that is instituted daily or periodically within...
- Texas Section 452.117 - Public Hearing On Experimental Service Change
A hearing on an experimental service change as described by Section 452.116 to remain in effect for more than 180 days may be held before...
SUBCHAPTER D STATION OR TERMINAL COMPLEX SYSTEMS
- Texas Section 452.118 - Notice Of Hearing On Fare Or Service Change In Certain Authorities
(a) The subregional board shall call a public hearing required by Section 452.115 and: (1) publish at least 30 days before the date of the...
- Texas Section 452.151 - 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 452.152 - 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 452.153 - 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 452.154 - Station Or Terminal Complex: Limitation On Real Property Acquisition By Condemnation
(a) An interest in real property that is more than 1,500 feet from the center point of a station or terminal complex may not be...
SUBCHAPTER E SPECIAL PROGRAMS AND SERVICES
- Texas Section 452.155 - 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 452.201 - Minority And Women-owned Business Program In Certain Authorities
(a) An authority consisting of one subregion governed by a subregional board created under Subchapter O may establish a program reasonably designed to increase the...
- Texas Section 452.202 - 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 G SERVICE PLANS
- Texas Section 452.203 - Waiver Of Federal Requirements
If, before implementing Section 452.202, the Texas Department of Human Services determines that a waiver or authorization from a federal agency is necessary for implementation,...
- Texas Section 452.301 - Implementation Of Service Plan: Certain Authorities
A subregional board created under Subchapter O that governs an authority consisting of one subregion shall implement the service plan as approved under Section 452.713...
- Texas Section 452.302 - Change In Service Plan: General Rule
A service plan may be changed by a majority vote of the members of the subregional board described by Section 452.301 at a meeting at...
- Texas Section 452.303 - Major Service Plan Change: Notice And Hearing
(a) The subregional board of an authority described by Section 452.301 may not, without holding a public hearing on the proposed change, consider a change...
- Texas Section 452.304 - Adoption Of Major Service Plan Change
(a) After a public hearing, the subregional board described by Section 452.301 may approve a change described by Section 452.303(a) in the service plan by...
SUBCHAPTER H BONDS
- Texas Section 452.305 - Service Plan Change: Authority Created By Contiguous Municipality
The service plan of an authority created by a contiguous municipality and confirmed may be changed only with the approval of the governing body of...
- Texas Section 452.351 - Definition
In this subchapter, "bond" includes a note. Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.
- Texas Section 452.352 - Power To Issue Bonds
(a) An authority may issue bonds at any time and for any amounts it considers necessary or appropriate for: (1) the acquisition, construction, repair, equipping,...
- Texas Section 452.353 - 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 452.354 - Sale
An authority's bonds may be sold at a public or private sale as determined by the executive committee to be the more advantageous. Acts 1995,...
- Texas Section 452.355 - 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 452.356 - 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 452.357 - 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 452.358 - Use Of Revenue
Revenue in excess of amounts pledged under Section 452.357(a)(1) or (2) shall be used to: (1) pay the expenses of operation and maintenance of a...
- Texas Section 452.359 - 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 452.360 - 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 452.361 - 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 public transportation system to...
- Texas Section 452.362 - Election To Pledge Taxes
(a) The executive committee may order an election to authorize the pledge of sales and use tax revenue to the payment of a specified amount...
- Texas Section 452.363 - Alternate Election Procedures For Certain Authorities
(a) The executive committee of an authority in which more than one municipality is holding an election under Section 452.362 may provide for a proposition,...
SUBCHAPTER I TAXATION
- Texas Section 452.364 - Tax Exemption
The interest on bonds issued by an authority is exempt from state and local taxes. Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept....
- Texas Section 452.401 - Sales And Use Tax
(a) The executive committee may impose for an authority a sales and use tax at the rate of: (1) one-quarter of one percent; (2) one-half...
- Texas Section 452.402 - Rate Increase: Sales And Use Tax
The executive committee may not increase the tax rate to a rate higher than the rate approved by the voters at the confirmation election without...
- Texas Section 452.403 - 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 452.404 - Initial Sales Tax: Effective Date
The adoption of or the increase or decrease in the rate of an authority's sales and use tax takes effect on the first day of...
- Texas Section 452.405 - Rate Decrease: Sales And Use Tax
(a) The executive committee by order may direct the comptroller to collect the authority's sales and use tax at a rate that is lower than...
- Texas Section 452.406 - Different Subregional Sales And Use Tax Rates
(a) The executive committee by order may direct the comptroller to collect the authority's sales and use tax at different rates in different subregions of...
SUBCHAPTER J FINANCIAL AND PERFORMANCE AUDITS
- Texas Section 452.407 - Property Taxes
An authority may not impose an ad valorem property tax. Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.
- Texas Section 452.451 - Financial Audits
(a) The executive committee of an authority shall have an annual audit of the affairs of the authority prepared by an independent certified public accountant...
- Texas Section 452.452 - Review Of Audit: Certain Authorities
(a) The subregional board of an authority consisting of one subregion governed by a subregional board created under Subchapter O shall deliver a copy of...
- Texas Section 452.454 - Performance Audits: Certain Authorities
(a) A subregional board created under Subchapter O governing an authority consisting of one subregion shall contract every fourth state fiscal year beginning with the...
- Texas Section 452.455 - Computation Of Performance Indicators
(a) This section applies to an authority required under Section 452.454 to contract for a performance audit. (b) An authority's operating cost per passenger is...
- Texas Section 452.456 - Performance Audit Response; Hearing
(a) An authority for which a performance audit is conducted under Section 452.454 shall prepare a written response to the performance audit report. The response...
SUBCHAPTER K PROVISIONS GENERALLY APPLICABLE TO EXECUTIVE COMMITTEES
- Texas Section 452.457 - Delivery Of Report And Response
An authority required by Section 452.454 to contract for a performance audit shall, before February 1 of the year after the fiscal year in which...
- Texas Section 452.501 - Applicability Of Subchapter
This subchapter does not apply to the executive committee of an authority created by a contiguous municipality. Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1,...
- Texas Section 452.502 - Executive Committee Of Regional Authority
(a) The executive committee of a regional transportation authority confirmed in more than one subregion is composed of 11 members selected as follows: (1) seven...
- Texas Section 452.503 - Terms; Vacancy
(a) A member of the executive committee serves at the pleasure of the subregional board. Each September 1 the confirmation of each appointment of a...
- Texas Section 452.504 - Officers
(a) The members of the executive committee shall elect from among its membership a presiding officer, assistant presiding officer, and secretary. (b) The executive committee...
- Texas Section 452.505 - Conflicts Of Interest
Members of the executive committee and officers of the authority are subject to Chapter 171, Local Government Code. Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec....
- Texas Section 452.506 - Meetings
(a) The executive committee shall hold at least one regular meeting each month to transact the business of an authority. (b) On written notice, the...
SUBCHAPTER L EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF AUTHORITY CREATED BY CONTIGUOUS MUNICIPALITY
- Texas Section 452.507 - Quorum; Voting Requirements
(a) Eight members are a quorum of the executive committee. (b) An action of the executive committee requires a vote of a majority of the...
- Texas Section 452.521 - Applicability Of Subchapter
This subchapter applies only to the executive committee of an authority created by a contiguous municipality. Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff....
- Texas Section 452.522 - Executive Committee
(a) The executive committee of an authority is composed of five members. (b) Each member is appointed by the governing body of the contiguous municipality....
- Texas Section 452.523 - Membership Terms; Vacancies
(a) Each member of the executive committee serves a term of two years except the initial terms of two members are for one year. The...
- Texas Section 452.524 - Officers
(a) The members of the executive committee shall elect from among its membership a presiding officer, assistant presiding officer, and secretary and other officers the...
- Texas Section 452.525 - Removal Of Members
The governing body of the contiguous municipality may remove a member of the executive committee at any time for, or without, cause. Acts 1995, 74th...
- Texas Section 452.526 - Conflicts Of Interest
A member of the executive committee or an officer of the subregional authority may not have a pecuniary interest or receive a direct or indirect...
- Texas Section 452.527 - Meetings
(a) The executive committee shall hold at least one regular meeting each month to transact the business of the subregional authority. (b) The presiding officer...
SUBCHAPTER M PROVISIONS GENERALLY APPLICABLE TO SUBREGIONAL BOARDS
- Texas Section 452.528 - Quorum; Voting Requirement
(a) Three members are a quorum of the executive committee. (b) An action of the executive committee requires a vote of a majority of the...
- Texas Section 452.541 - Board Membership: Residency In Authority
(a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), a member of a subregional board must be a qualified voter residing in the authority. (b) An individual...
- Texas Section 452.542 - Service On Board; Vacancies
(a) A member of a subregional board serves at the pleasure of the appointing governing body. (b) Each September each appointment must be reaffirmed. (c)...
- Texas Section 452.543 - Board Officers
(a) A subregional board shall elect from its membership a presiding officer, assistant presiding officer, and secretary. (b) The board may appoint, as necessary, members...
- Texas Section 452.544 - Conflicts Of Interest
A member of a subregional board is subject to Chapter 171, Local Government Code. Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1,
- Texas Section 452.545 - Duties
A subregional board shall: (1) develop, recommend, and approve the annual budget for its subregion; and (2) if the subregion is a part of a...
- Texas Section 452.546 - Board Meetings
(a) A subregional board, by resolution, shall: (1) set the time, place, and day of regular meetings; and (2) adopt rules and bylaws as necessary...
SUBCHAPTER N SUBREGIONAL BOARD IN AUTHORITY HAVING NO MUNICIPALITY WITH POPULATION OF MORE THAN 1.1 MILLION
- Texas Section 452.547 - Compensation; Expenses
Each member of a subregional board is entitled to: (1) reimbursement for necessary and reasonable expenses incurred in the discharge of duties; and (2) $50...
- Texas Section 452.561 - Applicability Of Subchapter
This subchapter applies only to the board of a subregion that has no principal municipality with a population of more than 1.1 million according to...
- Texas Section 452.562 - Board Membership; Appointments
(a) A subregional board is composed of 11 members. (b) If the entire county of the principal municipality is included in the authority, the subregional...
SUBCHAPTER O SUBREGIONAL BOARD IN SUBREGION HAVING PRINCIPAL MUNICIPALITY WITH POPULATION OF MORE THAN 1.1 MILLION
- Texas Section 452.563 - Quorum
(a) Six members of the subregional board are a quorum. (b) An action of the board requires a majority vote of the members present. Acts...
- Texas Section 452.571 - Applicability Of Subchapter
This subchapter applies only to the board of a subregion that has a principal municipality with a population of more than 1.1 million according to...
- Texas Section 452.572 - Board Membership; Municipal Representation
(a) The subregional board is composed of 15 members appointed by the governing bodies of the municipalities in the subregional authority. (b) The governing body...
- Texas Section 452.573 - Allocation Of Membership Among Municipalities
(a) A governing body of a municipality in a subregion may make appointments to the subregional board in the same ratio as the population of...
- Texas Section 452.574 - Board Membership: Eligibility
(a) To be eligible for appointment to a subregional board, a person must reside in the municipality making the appointment. (b) An elected officer of...
- Texas Section 452.575 - Appointments To Reflect Composition Of Municipality
The governing body of a municipality that makes more than one appointment shall, to the greatest extent practicable, select persons who accurately reflect the racial...
- Texas Section 452.576 - Maximum Municipal Membership Entitlement; Reallocation
(a) A municipality may not make more than 65 percent of the appointments to the subregional board. (b) If the number of appointments to which...
- Texas Section 452.577 - Reapportionment
As needed because of the withdrawal or addition of a municipality or unincorporated area, population changes, or changes in combinations established under Section 452.573(b), the...
- Texas Section 452.578 - Terms Of Board Members
(a) Each member of the subregional board serves a staggered term of two years. Eight of the terms begin on July 1 of odd-numbered years,...
- Texas Section 452.579 - Quorum; Actions
(a) Sixty-five percent of the members is a quorum. (b) An action of the subregional board requires a majority vote of the members present. Acts...
SUBCHAPTER P ADDITION OF TERRITORY
- Texas Section 452.580 - Change Of Budgeting Policy
A subregional board may adopt on a two-thirds vote of the board a budgeting policy for the authority that provides for the adoption and implementation...
- Texas Section 452.601 - Addition Of Territory By Municipal Annexation
(a) When a municipality that is part of an authority annexes territory that before the annexation is not part of the authority, the annexed territory...
- Texas Section 452.602 - Addition Of Municipality By Election
(a) The territory of a municipality that is not part of an authority may be added to an authority if: (1) any part of the...
- Texas Section 452.6025 - Addition Of Certain Municipalities By Election
(a) In this section, "special sales and use tax" means a sales and use tax levied by a municipality that is in excess of one...
- Texas Section 452.603 - Addition Of County Area By Election
(a) Unincorporated territory that is a part of a county, not a part of an authority, and designated by the commissioners court of the county...
- Texas Section 452.604 - Procedure For Annexation Of All Or Part Of Another Subregion
(a) The procedures provided by Section 452.701(a) or (b) and Sections 452.703-452.708 apply to the addition to an authority of a municipality located in another...
- Texas Section 452.605 - Joining Authority: Certain Authorities
(a) A municipality with a population of at least 250,000 according to the most recent federal decennial census and located in a county that has...
- Texas Section 452.606 - Executive Committee Approval Of Annexation: Effective Date
(a) The addition of territory approved under Section 452.602 or 452.603 does not take effect if, before the effective date of the addition under Subsection...
SUBCHAPTER Q WITHDRAWAL OF TERRITORY FROM AUTHORITY; DISSOLUTION
- Texas Section 452.607 - Added Territory: Effective Date Of Taxes
(a) A sales and use tax imposed by an authority under Subchapter I, other than a tax imposed by an authority created by a contiguous...
- Texas Section 452.651 - Withdrawal Of Unit Of Election
(a) The governing body of a unit of election may order an election to withdraw the unit from an authority. An election ordered under this...
- Texas Section 452.652 - Petition For Withdrawal Election
(a) At the request of a qualified voter of a unit of election in an authority, the municipal secretary or other clerk or administrator of...
- Texas Section 452.653 - 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 452.654 - 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 452.655 - Election
(a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), an election to withdraw from an authority ordered under this subchapter must be held on the first applicable...
- Texas Section 452.656 - Result Of Withdrawal Election
(a) If a majority of the votes received on the measure in an election held under Section 452.655 favor the proposition, the authority continues in...
- Texas Section 452.657 - Effect Of Withdrawal
(a) On the effective date of a withdrawal from an authority: (1) the authority shall cease providing transportation services in the withdrawn unit of election;...
- Texas Section 452.658 - 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 452.659 - Determination Of Total Amount Of Financial Obligations Of Withdrawn Unit
(a) Except as provided by Section 452.660, the total financial obligation of a withdrawn unit of election to the authority is an amount equal to:...
- Texas Section 452.660 - Additional Computations For Certain Authorities
(a) In addition to the amount determined under Sections 452.659(a)(1) and (2), the total financial obligations of a unit of election withdrawn from an authority...
- Texas Section 452.661 - Certification Of Net Financial Obligation Of Unit
The executive committee shall certify to a withdrawn unit of election and to the comptroller the total financial obligation of the unit to the authority...
SUBCHAPTER R CREATION OF AUTHORITIES
- Texas Section 452.662 - Dissolution Of Authority Created By Contiguous Municipality
(a) The governing body of a contiguous municipality, at any time after confirmation of a subregional authority, may order an election for the dissolution of...
- Texas Section 452.701 - Creation Of Regional Or Subregional Authority Authorized
(a) The governing body of a principal municipality, the commissioners court of the county of the principal municipality, or both of these bodies, from each...
- Texas Section 452.702 - Joint Or Merged Subregional Authorities
(a) Separate subregional authorities may agree to merge. (b) Two or more subregional authorities created by contiguous municipalities, by contract, may establish a joint subregional...
- Texas Section 452.703 - Initiating Order Or Resolution: Contents
To initiate the process of creating an authority, the governing body or commissioners court or both must adopt a resolution or order containing: (1) a...
- Texas Section 452.704 - Boundaries Of Authority
(a) Except as provided by Section 452.707, the territory proposed to be included in an authority must contain all territory: (1) in the county of...
- Texas Section 452.705 - Notice Of Hearing
(a) Notice of the time and place of the public hearings on the creation of the authority, including a description of the territory proposed to...
- Texas Section 452.706 - Conduct Of Hearing
(a) The entity or entities creating an authority shall conduct the public hearings on the creation. (b) Any person may appear at a hearing and...
- Texas Section 452.707 - Participation By Other Entities
(a) Before the confirmation election, the governing body of each municipality located in the proposed authority, by resolution, and the commissioners court of each county...
- Texas Section 452.708 - Resolution Or Order
(a) After hearing the evidence presented at the hearings, but not earlier than 75 days after the date the process is initiated by the creating...
- Texas Section 452.709 - Failure Of Other Entities To Join
A creating entity may continue the initiation or creation process alone if: (1) any other entity that is in another subregion and that is authorized...
- Texas Section 452.710 - Interim Subregional Board
(a) After the adoption of the resolution or order authorizing the appointment of the interim subregional board, the appointments shall be made. (b) The interim...
- Texas Section 452.711 - Interim Executive Committee
(a) Each subregional board shall select its representative to the interim executive committee before the confirmation election. (b) The interim executive committee, after its organization,...
- Texas Section 452.712 - Approval Of Service Plan And Tax Rate
(a) Not later than the 45th day after the date the interim executive committee approves the service plan and tax rate, the governing body of...
- Texas Section 452.713 - Approval Of Service Plan And Notice Of Intent To Order Election
(a) Not earlier than the 61st day after the date the interim executive committee approves a service plan and tax rate, the interim executive committee...
- Texas Section 452.714 - Creation Of Units Of Election
(a) Within 30 days after the date the commissioners court receives a notice under Section 452.713(a)(2), the commissioners court, by order, shall designate not more...
- Texas Section 452.715 - Confirmation Election
(a) The interim executive committee, or the governing body of a contiguous municipality for the creation of a subregional authority by that municipality, in ordering...
- Texas Section 452.716 - Conduct Of Election: Separate Tabulations
(a) A confirmation election shall be conducted so that the votes are separately tabulated and canvassed in each participating unit of election in the authority....
- Texas Section 452.717 - Results Of Election; Order
(a) In each unit of election in which a majority of the votes received in the unit favor the proposition, the authority is confirmed and...
- Texas Section 452.718 - Results Of Election In Contiguous Municipalities
After the confirmation election for a subregional authority created by a contiguous municipality, the governing body of the contiguous municipality shall adopt an order declaring,...
- Texas Section 452.719 - Cost Of Election
A creating entity shall pay the cost of the confirmation election. Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.
- Texas Section 452.720 - Expiration Of Unconfirmed Authority
An authority that has not been confirmed expires on the third anniversary of the effective date of the resolutions or orders initiating the process to...