Tex. Transportation Code § 457.001
This is the official text of Tex. Transportation Code § 457.001, part of Texas’s Transportation Code — governs vehicles, drivers, and roadways.
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§ 457.001. DEFINITIONS.
Official statutory text
In this chapter:
(1) "Authority" means a mass transit authority created under this chapter or former Article 1118z-1, Revised Statutes.
(2) "Board" means the governing body of an authority.
(3) "Bond" includes a note.
(4) "Mass transit" means the transportation of passengers and hand-carried packages or baggage of a passenger by any means of surface, overhead, or underground transportation, other than an aircraft or taxicab.
(5) "Principal municipality" means the municipality of greatest population in a county to which this chapter applies.
(6) "Transit authority system" means:
(A) property owned or held by an authority for mass transit purposes; and
(B) facilities necessary or convenient for:
(i) the use of or access to mass transit by persons or vehicles; or
(ii) the protection or environmental enhancement of mass transit.
(7) "Unit of election" means a municipality, including the principal municipality, or the unincorporated area of a county.
(8) "Transportation disadvantaged" has the meaning assigned by Section 451.001.
(1) "Authority" means a mass transit authority created under this chapter or former Article 1118z-1, Revised Statutes.
(2) "Board" means the governing body of an authority.
(3) "Bond" includes a note.
(4) "Mass transit" means the transportation of passengers and hand-carried packages or baggage of a passenger by any means of surface, overhead, or underground transportation, other than an aircraft or taxicab.
(5) "Principal municipality" means the municipality of greatest population in a county to which this chapter applies.
(6) "Transit authority system" means:
(A) property owned or held by an authority for mass transit purposes; and
(B) facilities necessary or convenient for:
(i) the use of or access to mass transit by persons or vehicles; or
(ii) the protection or environmental enhancement of mass transit.
(7) "Unit of election" means a municipality, including the principal municipality, or the unincorporated area of a county.
(8) "Transportation disadvantaged" has the meaning assigned by Section 451.001.
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