Texas Transportation Code Title 6, Chapter 454 - Municipal Mass Transportation Systems

SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS

• Texas Section 454.001 - Authority
  (a) A municipality may own, purchase, construct, improve, extend, and operate a mass transportation system to carry passengers for hire within the municipality, its suburbs,...
• Texas Section 454.002 - Essential Governmental Functions
  (a) Mass transportation service provided by a municipality directly or through another entity by lease, contract, or other manner is an essential governmental function and...
• Texas Section 454.003 - Federal Grants And Loans
  (a) A municipality may accept a grant or loan from the United States to finance all or part of the cost of acquiring, constructing, or...
• Texas Section 454.004 - Management
  (a) By the terms of an instrument evidencing an encumbrance of a mass transportation system or the terms of an ordinance, a municipality may place...
• Texas Section 454.005 - Lease Of System
  (a) In lieu of operating a mass transportation system, the governing body of a municipality or a board of trustees managing the system, with the...
• Texas Section 454.006 - Fares
  (a) Fares charged by a mass transportation system may be set according to a zone system or other classification that the municipality determines to be...
• Texas Section 454.007 - Use Of Revenue To Pay Other Municipal Debts Prohibited
  (a) Except as permitted by the ordinance authorizing the bonds or notes or the deed of trust or indenture securing the bonds or notes or...
• Texas Section 454.008 - Records And Accounts
  (a) The mayor of a municipality shall install and maintain a complete system of records and accounts showing the revenue collected and showing separately the...
• Texas Section 454.009 - Annual Report
  (a) Not later than February 1 of each year, the superintendent or manager of a mass transportation system shall file with the mayor of the...

SUBCHAPTER B REVENUE BONDS AND NOTES

• Texas Section 454.010 - Enforcement
  A taxpayer or holder of indebtedness of a mass transportation system residing within the municipality may enforce this chapter by appropriate civil action in a...
• Texas Section 454.021 - Authority To Issue
  (a) A municipality may issue bonds and notes from time to time and in the amounts it considers necessary or appropriate for acquiring, constructing, improving,...
• Texas Section 454.022 - Notice Of Ordinance Authorizing Issuance
  Before adopting an ordinance authorizing the issuance of bonds or notes under this chapter, the governing body of a municipality shall give notice of the...
• Texas Section 454.023 - Petition For Election
  (a) The governing body of a municipality may issue bonds or notes under this chapter without an election unless a petition requesting an election on...
• Texas Section 454.024 - Election
  (a) If a petition meeting the requirements of Section 454.023 is filed: (1) the governing body of the municipality shall hold an election on the...
• Texas Section 454.025 - Encumbrance Of Transportation System
  (a) To secure the payment of bonds or notes issued under this chapter, a municipality may encumber: (1) all or any part of the mass...
• Texas Section 454.026 - Transportation System Franchise
  In addition to encumbering the property of a mass transportation system under Section 454.025, a municipality, by the terms of an instrument evidencing that encumbrance,...
• Texas Section 454.027 - Operating Expenses As Lien On Revenue
  If the revenue of a mass transportation system is encumbered under this chapter, the expenses of operation and maintenance, including all salaries, labor, materials, interest,...
• Texas Section 454.028 - Obligation Of Transportation System Not Municipal Debt
  (a) An obligation of a mass transportation system: (1) is not a debt of the municipality; (2) is solely a charge on the property, including...
• Texas Section 454.029 - Additional Bonds Or Notes
  (a) While bonds or notes that are payable from and secured by a pledge of the revenue of a mass transportation system are outstanding, the...
• Texas Section 454.030 - Refunding Bonds Or Notes
  (a) A municipality may issue refunding bonds or notes to refund one or more series or issues of bonds or notes. (b) Refunding bonds or...

Last modified: September 28, 2016