Tex. Transportation Code § 256.002
This is the official text of Tex. Transportation Code § 256.002, part of Texas’s Transportation Code — governs vehicles, drivers, and roadways.
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§ 256.002. DISTRIBUTION OF COUNTY AND ROAD DISTRICT HIGHWAY FUND.
Official statutory text
(a) The comptroller shall distribute to the counties on or before October 15 of each year the money appropriated from the county and road district highway fund for that fiscal year.
(b) The money appropriated under Subsection (a) shall be allocated among the counties as follows:
(1) one-fifth according to area, determined by the ratio of the area of the county to the area of the state;
(2) two-fifths according to rural population, determined by the ratio of the rural population of the county to the rural population of the state; and
(3) two-fifths according to lateral road mileage, determined by the ratio of the mileage of lateral roads in the county to the mileage of lateral roads in the state as of January 1 of the year of the allocation as shown by the records of the State-Federal Highway Planning Survey and the department.
(c) On its own motion or at the request of a county, the commission may have a survey made of the county's lateral road mileage. If a survey is made, its results shall be substituted for the corresponding government information to be used under Subsection (b)(3). The governmental entity that requests the survey shall pay for it.
(d) Except as provided by Section 153.503(3)(A), Tax Code, the comptroller may not deposit tax receipts or other money to the credit of the county and road district highway fund.
(b) The money appropriated under Subsection (a) shall be allocated among the counties as follows:
(1) one-fifth according to area, determined by the ratio of the area of the county to the area of the state;
(2) two-fifths according to rural population, determined by the ratio of the rural population of the county to the rural population of the state; and
(3) two-fifths according to lateral road mileage, determined by the ratio of the mileage of lateral roads in the county to the mileage of lateral roads in the state as of January 1 of the year of the allocation as shown by the records of the State-Federal Highway Planning Survey and the department.
(c) On its own motion or at the request of a county, the commission may have a survey made of the county's lateral road mileage. If a survey is made, its results shall be substituted for the corresponding government information to be used under Subsection (b)(3). The governmental entity that requests the survey shall pay for it.
(d) Except as provided by Section 153.503(3)(A), Tax Code, the comptroller may not deposit tax receipts or other money to the credit of the county and road district highway fund.
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