Tex. Transportation Code § 454.001
This is the official text of Tex. Transportation Code § 454.001, part of Texas’s Transportation Code — governs vehicles, drivers, and roadways.
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§ 454.001. AUTHORITY.
Official statutory text
(a) A municipality may own, purchase, construct, improve, extend, and operate a mass transportation system to carry passengers for hire within the municipality, its suburbs, and adjacent areas.
(b) A municipality, individually or in cooperation with the United States, may:
(1) undertake research, development, and demonstration projects for a mass transportation system in the municipality, its suburbs, and adjacent areas; and
(2) acquire, construct, and improve a facility or equipment for use, by operation, lease, or otherwise, in mass transportation service in those areas on, under, over, along, or across a public street or highway and on real property, an easement, or a right-of-way acquired for that purpose.
(b) A municipality, individually or in cooperation with the United States, may:
(1) undertake research, development, and demonstration projects for a mass transportation system in the municipality, its suburbs, and adjacent areas; and
(2) acquire, construct, and improve a facility or equipment for use, by operation, lease, or otherwise, in mass transportation service in those areas on, under, over, along, or across a public street or highway and on real property, an easement, or a right-of-way acquired for that purpose.
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