Tex. Transportation Code § 112.057
This is the official text of Tex. Transportation Code § 112.057, part of Texas’s Transportation Code — governs vehicles, drivers, and roadways.
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§ 112.057. CONSTRUCTION ON OR NEAR CERTAIN WATERWAYS OR ROADS.
Official statutory text
(a) A railroad company may construct the company's road across, along, or on any stream of water, water course, street, highway, turnpike, or canal where the route of the company's railway intersects or touches the stream, water course, street, highway, turnpike, or canal.
(b) The railroad company shall:
(1) restore the stream, water course, street, highway, turnpike, or canal to its former state or to a state in which its usefulness is not unnecessarily impaired; and
(2) keep the crossing in repair.
(b) The railroad company shall:
(1) restore the stream, water course, street, highway, turnpike, or canal to its former state or to a state in which its usefulness is not unnecessarily impaired; and
(2) keep the crossing in repair.
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