Texas Transportation Code Title 6, Chapter 457 - County Mass Transit Authority

SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS

• Texas Section 457.001 - Definitions
  In this chapter: (1) "Authority" means a mass transit authority created under this chapter or former Article 1118z-1, Revised Statutes. (2) "Board" means the governing...

SUBCHAPTER B CREATION AND ADMINISTRATION OF AUTHORITY

• Texas Section 457.002 - Applicability
  This chapter applies only to a county containing a municipality with a population of 500,000 or more that has created a mass transit department under...
• Texas Section 457.051 - Creation Of Authority
  (a) An authority is created under this chapter if a resolution finding that the creation of an authority would be in the public interest and...
• Texas Section 457.052 - Board Of Authority
  (a) The board of an authority consists of seven members. A member of the board serves without compensation but is entitled to reimbursement for expenses...
• Texas Section 457.053 - Confirmation Election
  (a) If an authority is created under Section 457.051, the board shall propose a service plan and an initial tax rate for the authority. The...
• Texas Section 457.054 - Conflicts Of Interest: Authority Employees
  An employee of an authority may not have a pecuniary interest in, or receive a benefit from, an agreement to which the authority is a...
• Texas Section 457.055 - Transfer Of Resources Between Municipality And Authority
  (a) The governing body of a municipality may transfer to an authority created under this chapter: (1) property and employees of a division of the...
• Texas Section 457.056 - Investments
  (a) A board may invest authority funds in any obligation, security, or evidence of indebtedness in which the principal municipality may invest municipal funds. (b)...
• Texas Section 457.057 - Deposit Of Money
  (a) The board shall designate one or more banks as depositories for authority funds. All authority money, other than money invested as provided by Section...

SUBCHAPTER C POWERS OF AUTHORITY

• Texas Section 457.058 - Liability Of Creating Entities
  The political subdivisions that adopt a resolution under Section 457.051(a) are liable for an expense the authority incurs before the date a sales and use...
• Texas Section 457.101 - Acquiring And Disposing Of Property
  (a) An authority may acquire, hold, use, sell, lease, or dispose of property, including licenses, patents, rights, and other interests, necessary, convenient, or useful for...
• Texas Section 457.102 - Transit Authority System
  (a) An authority may: (1) acquire, construct, own, operate, and maintain a transit authority system; (2) use any public way; and (3) construct, repair, and...
• Texas Section 457.103 - Fares And Other Charges
  The board shall, after a public hearing, impose reasonable and nondiscriminatory fares, tolls, charges, rents, or other compensation for the use of the transit authority...
• Texas Section 457.104 - Agreement With Utilities And Carriers
  An authority may agree with a public or private utility, communication system, common carrier, or transportation system for: (1) the joint use of the property...
• Texas Section 457.105 - Contracts; Acquisition Of Property By Agreement
  (a) An authority may contract with any person and may accept a grant or loan from any person. (b) An authority may acquire rolling stock...
• Texas Section 457.106 - Use And Acquisition Of Property Of Others
  (a) An authority may not alter or damage any property of this state or a political subdivision of this state or owned by a person...
• Texas Section 457.107 - Routes
  An authority shall determine each route, including route changes, as the board considers advisable. Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 30.35(a), eff....
• Texas Section 457.108 - Tort Liability And Governmental Immunity
  (a) An authority is a separate governmental unit for purposes of Chapter 101, Civil Practice and Remedies Code, and operations of an authority are essential...

SUBCHAPTER D SPECIAL TRANSPORTATION PROGRAMS

• Texas Section 457.109 - Tax Exemption
  The assets of an authority are exempt from any tax of the state or a state taxing authority. Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch....
• Texas Section 457.151 - Transportation For Jobs Program Participants
  (a) An authority shall contract with the Texas Workforce Commission to provide, in accordance with federal law, transportation services to a person who: (1) resides...

SUBCHAPTER E ALTERNATIVE FUEL USE PROGRAM

• Texas Section 457.152 - Waiver Of Federal Requirements
  If, before implementing Section 457.151, the Texas Workforce Commission determines that a waiver or authorization from a federal agency is necessary for implementation, the workforce...
• Texas Section 457.201 - Purchase And Percent Of Vehicles Using Alternative Fuel
  (a) An authority may not purchase or lease a motor vehicle that is not capable of using compressed natural gas or another alternative fuel the...
• Texas Section 457.202 - Alternative Fuel Use Program: Exceptions
  (a) An authority may make exceptions to the requirements of Section 457.201 if the authority certifies the facts described by Subsection (b). (b) A certification...
• Texas Section 457.203 - Alternative Fuel Equipment And Facilities
  (a) In addition to other methods authorized by law, an authority may acquire or be provided equipment or refueling facilities by an arrangement, including a...

SUBCHAPTER F BONDS

• Texas Section 457.204 - Alternative Fuel Use Program: Vehicles Covered And Safety
  (a) In developing a compressed natural gas or other alternative fuel use program, an authority should work with vehicle manufacturers and converters, fuel distributors, and...
• Texas Section 457.251 - Power To Issue Bonds
  (a) An authority may issue revenue bonds at any time and for any amounts it considers necessary or appropriate for: (1) the acquisition, construction, repair,...
• Texas Section 457.252 - Bond Terms
  (a) An authority's bonds are fully negotiable. (b) The authority may make the bonds redeemable before maturity at the price and subject to the terms...
• Texas Section 457.253 - Sale
  Bonds may be sold at a public or private sale as determined by the board. Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 30.35(a),...
• Texas Section 457.254 - 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 457.255 - 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 457.256 - Security Pledged
  (a) To secure the payment of an authority's bonds, the authority may: (1) pledge all or part of revenue received from any tax that the...
• Texas Section 457.257 - 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 457.258 - Refunding Bonds
  An authority may issue refunding bonds for the purposes and in the manner authorized by Chapter 1207, Government Code, or other law. Added by Acts...
• Texas Section 457.259 - Bonds As Authorized Investments
  (a) An authority's bonds are authorized investments for: (1) a bank; (2) a trust company; (3) a savings and loan association; and (4) an insurance...

SUBCHAPTER G TAXES

• Texas Section 457.260 - Interest Exemption
  Interest on bonds issued by an authority is exempt from any tax of the state or a state taxing authority. Added by Acts 1997, 75th...
• Texas Section 457.301 - Sales And Use Tax
  (a) The board may impose for the authority a sales and use tax at a permissible rate that does not exceed the rate approved by...
• Texas Section 457.302 - Maximum Tax Rate
  (a) A board may not adopt a sales and use tax rate, including a rate increase, that when combined with the rates of all sales...
• Texas Section 457.303 - Election To Change Tax Rate
  (a) At an election ordered under Section 457.301(b)(2), the ballots shall be printed to permit voting for or against the proposition: "The increase (decrease) of...

SUBCHAPTER H DISSOLUTION OF AUTHORITY; WITHDRAWAL OF UNIT OF ELECTION

• Texas Section 457.304 - Sales Tax: Effective Dates
  (a) An authority's sales and use tax takes effect on the first day of the second calendar quarter that begins after the date the comptroller...
• Texas Section 457.351 - Election To Dissolve Authority
  (a) A board may order an election on the question of dissolving the authority. (b) The board shall dissolve the authority if the dissolution is...
• Texas Section 457.352 - Withdrawal From Authority
  (a) The governing body of a unit of election may order an election to withdraw the unit from an authority. (b) On the determination by...
• Texas Section 457.353 - Petition For Withdrawal
  (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 457.354 - Withdrawal Election
  (a) An election to withdraw from an authority must be held on the first applicable uniform election date occurring after the expiration of 12 calendar...
• Texas Section 457.355 - Procedure After Withdrawal Election
  (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...

Last modified: September 28, 2016