Tex. Transportation Code § 457.202
This is the official text of Tex. Transportation Code § 457.202, part of Texas’s Transportation Code — governs vehicles, drivers, and roadways.
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§ 457.202.
Official statutory text
Sec. 457.202. ALTERNATIVE FUEL USE PROGRAM: EXCEPTIONS. (a) An authority may make exceptions to the requirements of Section 457.201 if the authority certifies the facts described by Subsection (b).
(b) A certification under this section must state that:
(1) the authority's vehicles will be operating primarily in an area in which neither the authority nor a supplier has or can reasonably be expected to establish a central refueling station for compressed natural gas or other alternative fuel; or
(2) the authority is unable to acquire or be provided equipment or refueling facilities necessary to operate vehicles using compressed natural gas or other alternative fuel at a project cost that is reasonably expected to result in no greater net cost than the continued use of traditional gasoline or diesel fuel measured over the expected useful life of the equipment or facilities supplied.
(b) A certification under this section must state that:
(1) the authority's vehicles will be operating primarily in an area in which neither the authority nor a supplier has or can reasonably be expected to establish a central refueling station for compressed natural gas or other alternative fuel; or
(2) the authority is unable to acquire or be provided equipment or refueling facilities necessary to operate vehicles using compressed natural gas or other alternative fuel at a project cost that is reasonably expected to result in no greater net cost than the continued use of traditional gasoline or diesel fuel measured over the expected useful life of the equipment or facilities supplied.
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