Tex. Transportation Code § 112.056
This is the official text of Tex. Transportation Code § 112.056, part of Texas’s Transportation Code — governs vehicles, drivers, and roadways.
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§ 112.056. CONDEMNATION OF PROPERTY FOR CERTAIN ROADS.
Official statutory text
(a) Subject to Subsection (b), a corporation created to build, maintain, and operate a line of railroads to a mine, gin, quarry, manufacturing plant, or mill may acquire by condemnation land necessary for the right-of-way for a road connecting the mine, gin, quarry, manufacturing plant, or mill to the nearest line of railroad.
(b) The corporation may condemn property under this section only if the corporation declares itself a common carrier and its railroads public highways, placing the road under the control of the department.
(b) The corporation may condemn property under this section only if the corporation declares itself a common carrier and its railroads public highways, placing the road under the control of the department.
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