Title TN, Transportation Code

Sec. 452.546. BOARD MEETINGS. (a) A subregional board, by resolution, shall: (1) set the time, place, and day of regular meetings; and (2) adopt rules and bylaws as necessary to conduct meetings. (b) A special meeting must be called by written notice of the presiding officer or a…

Sec. 452.547. COMPENSATION; EXPENSES. Each member of a subregional board is entitled to: (1) reimbursement for necessary and reasonable expenses incurred in the discharge of duties; and (2) $50 for each meeting of the executive committee or subregional board attended. Acts 1995, …

Sec. 452.561. APPLICABILITY OF SUBCHAPTER. This subchapter applies only to the board of a subregion that has no principal municipality with a population of more than 1.1 million according to the most recent federal decennial census. Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sep…

Sec. 452.562. BOARD MEMBERSHIP; APPOINTMENTS. (a) A subregional board is composed of 11 members. (b) If the entire county of the principal municipality is included in the authority, the subregional board consists of: (1) five members appointed by the governing body of the princip…

Sec. 452.563. QUORUM. (a) Six members of the subregional board are a quorum. (b) An action of the board requires a majority vote of the members present. Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995. SUBCHAPTER O. SUBREGIONAL BOARD IN SUBREGION HAVING PRINCIPAL MUNICI…

Sec. 452.571. APPLICABILITY OF SUBCHAPTER. This subchapter applies only to the board of a subregion that has a principal municipality with a population of more than 1.1 million according to the most recent federal decennial census. Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept…

Sec. 452.572. BOARD MEMBERSHIP; MUNICIPAL REPRESENTATION. (a) The subregional board is composed of 15 members appointed by the governing bodies of the municipalities in the subregional authority. (b) The governing body of a municipality entitled to appoint more than one board mem…

Sec. 452.573. ALLOCATION OF MEMBERSHIP AMONG MUNICIPALITIES. (a) A governing body of a municipality in a subregion may make appointments to the subregional board in the same ratio as the population of the appointing municipality bears to the population of the subregion. (b) A mun…

Sec. 452.574. BOARD MEMBERSHIP: ELIGIBILITY. (a) To be eligible for appointment to a subregional board, a person must reside in the municipality making the appointment. (b) An elected officer of the state or a political subdivision of this state who is not prohibited by the Texas…

Sec. 452.575. APPOINTMENTS TO REFLECT COMPOSITION OF MUNICIPALITY. The governing body of a municipality that makes more than one appointment shall, to the greatest extent practicable, select persons who accurately reflect the racial and ethnic composition of the municipality. Act…

Sec. 452.576. MAXIMUM MUNICIPAL MEMBERSHIP ENTITLEMENT; REALLOCATION. (a) A municipality may not make more than 65 percent of the appointments to the subregional board. (b) If the number of appointments to which a municipality would be entitled under Section 452.573 exceeds the l…

Sec. 452.577. REAPPORTIONMENT. As needed because of the withdrawal or addition of a municipality or unincorporated area, population changes, or changes in combinations established under Section 452.573(b), the board of a subregional authority shall be restructured under Section 4…

Sec. 452.578. TERMS OF BOARD MEMBERS. (a) Each member of the subregional board serves a staggered term of two years. Eight of the terms begin on July 1 of odd-numbered years, and seven terms begin on July 1 of even-numbered years. (b) The term of a member does not end because of …

Sec. 452.579. QUORUM; ACTIONS. (a) Sixty-five percent of the members is a quorum. (b) An action of the subregional board requires a majority vote of the members present. Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.

Sec. 452.580. CHANGE OF BUDGETING POLICY. A subregional board may adopt on a two-thirds vote of the board a budgeting policy for the authority that provides for the adoption and implementation of a budget that extends for two fiscal years, with annual reviews as needed. Added by …

Sec. 452.601. ADDITION OF TERRITORY BY MUNICIPAL ANNEXATION. (a) When a municipality that is part of an authority annexes territory that before the annexation is not part of the authority, the annexed territory becomes part of the authority. (b) When a contiguous municipality ann…

Sec. 452.602. ADDITION OF MUNICIPALITY BY ELECTION. (a) The territory of a municipality that is not part of an authority may be added to an authority if: (1) any part of the municipality is located in a county in which the authority is located; (2) the governing body of the munic…

Sec. 452.6025. ADDITION OF CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES BY ELECTION. (a) In this section, "special sales and use tax" means a sales and use tax levied by a municipality that is in excess of one percent. (b) This section applies only to a municipality that levies a special sales and use…

Sec. 452.603. ADDITION OF COUNTY AREA BY ELECTION. (a) Unincorporated territory that is a part of a county, not a part of an authority, and designated by the commissioners court of the county may be added to an authority if: (1) any part of the county is located in the authority …

Sec. 452.604. PROCEDURE FOR ANNEXATION OF ALL OR PART OF ANOTHER SUBREGION. (a) The procedures provided by Section 452.701(a) or (b) and Sections 452.703-452.708 apply to the addition to an authority of a municipality located in another subregion or the addition of another subreg…

Sec. 452.605. JOINING AUTHORITY: CERTAIN AUTHORITIES. (a) A municipality with a population of at least 250,000 according to the most recent federal decennial census and located in a county that has no principal municipality with a population of more than 1.1 million according to …

Sec. 452.606. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE APPROVAL OF ANNEXATION: EFFECTIVE DATE. (a) The addition of territory approved under Section 452.602 or 452.603 does not take effect if, before the effective date of the addition under Subsection (b), the executive committee of the authority give…

Sec. 452.607. ADDED TERRITORY: EFFECTIVE DATE OF TAXES. (a) A sales and use tax imposed by an authority under Subchapter I, other than a tax imposed by an authority created by a contiguous municipality and except as provided by Section 452.403, takes effect in territory added to …

Sec. 452.651. WITHDRAWAL OF UNIT OF ELECTION. (a) The governing body of a unit of election may order an election to withdraw the unit from an authority. An election ordered under this subsection for a unit of election located in an authority consisting of one subregion governed b…

Sec. 452.652. PETITION FOR WITHDRAWAL ELECTION. (a) At the request of a qualified voter of a unit of election in an authority, the municipal secretary or other clerk or administrator of the unit of election shall deliver to the voter, in the number requested, petition signature s…

Sec. 452.653. REVIEW OF PETITION. (a) The secretary, clerk, or administrator of a unit of election in which a petition for withdrawal from an authority is filed shall examine the petition and file with the governing body of the unit a report stating whether the petition, in the o…

Sec. 452.654. INVALID PETITION. (a) The governing body of a unit of election that receives an invalid petition shall reject the petition. (b) A petition that is rejected is void and the petition and each sheet of the rejected petition may not be used in connection with a subseque…

Sec. 452.655. ELECTION. (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), an election to withdraw from an authority ordered under this subchapter must be held on the first applicable uniform election date occurring after the expiration of 12 calendar months after the date on which the go…

Sec. 452.656. RESULT OF WITHDRAWAL ELECTION. (a) If a majority of the votes received on the measure in an election held under Section 452.655 favor the proposition, the authority continues in the unit of election. (b) If less than a majority of the votes received on the measure i…

Sec. 452.657. EFFECT OF WITHDRAWAL. (a) On the effective date of a withdrawal from an authority: (1) the authority shall cease providing transportation services in the withdrawn unit of election; and (2) the financial obligations of the authority attributable to the withdrawn uni…

Sec. 452.658. COLLECTION OF SALES AND USE TAX AFTER WITHDRAWAL. (a) Until the amount of revenue from an authority's sales and use tax collected in a withdrawn unit of election after the effective date of withdrawal and paid to the authority equals the total financial obligation o…

Sec. 452.659. DETERMINATION OF TOTAL AMOUNT OF FINANCIAL OBLIGATIONS OF WITHDRAWN UNIT. (a) Except as provided by Section 452.660, the total financial obligation of a withdrawn unit of election to the authority is an amount equal to: (1) the unit's apportioned share of the author…

Sec. 452.660. ADDITIONAL COMPUTATIONS FOR CERTAIN AUTHORITIES. (a) In addition to the amount determined under Sections 452.659(a)(1) and (2), the total financial obligations of a unit of election withdrawn from an authority consisting of one subregion governed by a subregional bo…

Sec. 452.661. CERTIFICATION OF NET FINANCIAL OBLIGATION OF UNIT. The executive committee shall certify to a withdrawn unit of election and to the comptroller the total financial obligation of the unit to the authority as determined under this subchapter. Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch.…

Sec. 452.662. DISSOLUTION OF AUTHORITY CREATED BY CONTIGUOUS MUNICIPALITY. (a) The governing body of a contiguous municipality, at any time after confirmation of a subregional authority, may order an election for the dissolution of the authority. (b) The governing body of a conti…

Sec. 452.701. CREATION OF REGIONAL OR SUBREGIONAL AUTHORITY AUTHORIZED. (a) The governing body of a principal municipality, the commissioners court of the county of the principal municipality, or both of these bodies, from each subregion of a metropolitan area, may agree to initi…

Sec. 452.702. JOINT OR MERGED SUBREGIONAL AUTHORITIES. (a) Separate subregional authorities may agree to merge. (b) Two or more subregional authorities created by contiguous municipalities, by contract, may establish a joint subregional authority having terms approved by the gove…

Sec. 452.703. INITIATING ORDER OR RESOLUTION: CONTENTS. To initiate the process of creating an authority, the governing body or commissioners court or both must adopt a resolution or order containing: (1) a description of the boundaries of the territory proposed to be included in…

Sec. 452.704. BOUNDARIES OF AUTHORITY. (a) Except as provided by Section 452.707, the territory proposed to be included in an authority must contain all territory: (1) in the county of the principal municipality; and (2) in each unit of election that has the majority of its popul…

Sec. 452.705. NOTICE OF HEARING. (a) Notice of the time and place of the public hearings on the creation of the authority, including a description of the territory proposed to be included in the authority, shall be published, beginning at least 30 days before the date of the hear…

Sec. 452.706. CONDUCT OF HEARING. (a) The entity or entities creating an authority shall conduct the public hearings on the creation. (b) Any person may appear at a hearing and offer evidence on: (1) the creation and boundaries of the authority; (2) the operation of a public tran…

Sec. 452.707. PARTICIPATION BY OTHER ENTITIES. (a) Before the confirmation election, the governing body of each municipality located in the proposed authority, by resolution, and the commissioners court of each county in which unincorporated areas are located in the proposed auth…

Sec. 452.708. RESOLUTION OR ORDER. (a) After hearing the evidence presented at the hearings, but not earlier than 75 days after the date the process is initiated by the creating entity, each creating entity may adopt a resolution or order: (1) designating the name of the authorit…

Sec. 452.709. FAILURE OF OTHER ENTITIES TO JOIN. A creating entity may continue the initiation or creation process alone if: (1) any other entity that is in another subregion and that is authorized under Section 452.701(a) or (b) to initiate the process does not initiate the proc…

Sec. 452.710. INTERIM SUBREGIONAL BOARD. (a) After the adoption of the resolution or order authorizing the appointment of the interim subregional board, the appointments shall be made. (b) The interim subregional board of a subregion that has no principal municipality with a popu…

Sec. 452.711. INTERIM EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. (a) Each subregional board shall select its representative to the interim executive committee before the confirmation election. (b) The interim executive committee, after its organization, shall develop a service plan and determine a pro…