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Tex. Transportation Code § 21.005

This is the official text of Tex. Transportation Code § 21.005, part of Texas’s Transportation Code — governs vehicles, drivers, and roadways.

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§ 21.005. SUIT AGAINST DEPARTMENT.

Official statutory text

(a) An interested party who is adversely affected by an act, decision, rate, charge, order, or rule adopted by the department and who fails to get relief from the department may file a petition against the department in a district court of Travis County, Texas.

(b) The petition must set forth the air carrier's or party's particular objections to the act, decision, rate, charge, order, or rule.

(c) The court shall give priority to an action described by Subsection (a) over all other causes on the docket of a different nature.

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