Title TN, Transportation Code

Sec. 457.152. WAIVER OF FEDERAL REQUIREMENTS. If, before implementing Section 457.151, the Texas Workforce Commission determines that a waiver or authorization from a federal agency is necessary for implementation, the workforce commission shall request the waiver or authorizatio…

Sec. 457.201. PURCHASE AND PERCENT OF VEHICLES USING ALTERNATIVE FUEL. (a) An authority may not purchase or lease a motor vehicle that is not capable of using compressed natural gas or another alternative fuel the use of which results in comparably lower emissions of oxides of ni…

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 vehicl…

Sec. 457.203. ALTERNATIVE FUEL EQUIPMENT AND FACILITIES. (a) In addition to other methods authorized by law, an authority may acquire or be provided equipment or refueling facilities by an arrangement, including a gift or a loan, under a service contract for the supply of compres…

Sec. 457.204. ALTERNATIVE FUEL USE PROGRAM: VEHICLES COVERED AND SAFETY. (a) In developing a compressed natural gas or other alternative fuel use program, an authority should work with vehicle manufacturers and converters, fuel distributors, and others to specify the vehicles to …

Sec. 457.251. POWER TO ISSUE BONDS. (a) An authority may issue revenue bonds at any time and for any amounts it considers necessary or appropriate for: (1) the acquisition, construction, repair, equipping, improvement, or extension of its transit system; or (2) the construction o…

Sec. 457.252. BOND TERMS. (a) An authority's bonds are fully negotiable. (b) The authority may make the bonds redeemable before maturity at the price and subject to the terms that are provided in the resolution authorizing the bonds. (c) A revenue bond indenture may limit a power…

Sec. 457.253. SALE. Bonds may be sold at a public or private sale as determined by the board. Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 30.35(a), eff. Sept. 1, 1997.

Sec. 457.254. APPROVAL; REGISTRATION. (a) An authority's bonds and the records relating to their issuance shall be submitted to the attorney general for examination before the bonds may be delivered. (b) If the attorney general finds that the bonds have been issued in conformity …

Sec. 457.255. INCONTESTABILITY. Bonds are incontestable after they are: (1) approved by the attorney general; (2) registered by the comptroller; and (3) sold and delivered to the purchaser. Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 30.35(a), eff. Sept. 1, 1997.

Sec. 457.256. SECURITY PLEDGED. (a) To secure the payment of an authority's bonds, the authority may: (1) pledge all or part of revenue received from any tax that the authority may impose; (2) pledge all or part of the revenue of the transit authority system; and (3) mortgage all…

Sec. 457.257. PLEDGE OF REVENUE LIMITED. The expenses of operation and maintenance of a transit authority system, including salaries, labor, materials, and repairs necessary to provide efficient service and every other proper item of expense, are a first lien and charge against a…

Sec. 457.258. REFUNDING BONDS. An authority may issue refunding bonds for the purposes and in the manner authorized by Chapter 1207, Government Code, or other law. Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 30.35(a), eff. Sept. 1, 1997. Amended by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1420…

Sec. 457.259. BONDS AS AUTHORIZED INVESTMENTS. (a) An authority's bonds are authorized investments for: (1) a bank; (2) a trust company; (3) a savings and loan association; and (4) an insurance company. (b) The bonds, when accompanied by all appurtenant, unmatured coupons and to …

Sec. 457.260. INTEREST EXEMPTION. Interest on bonds issued by an authority is exempt from any tax of the state or a state taxing authority. Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 30.35(a), eff. Sept. 1, 1997. SUBCHAPTER G. TAXES

Sec. 457.301. SALES AND USE TAX. (a) The board may impose for the authority a sales and use tax at a permissible rate that does not exceed the rate approved by the voters at an election under this chapter. (b) The board by order may: (1) decrease the rate of the sales and use tax…

Sec. 457.302. MAXIMUM TAX RATE. (a) A board may not adopt a sales and use tax rate, including a rate increase, that when combined with the rates of all sales and use taxes imposed by all political subdivisions of this state having territory in the county exceeds two percent in an…

Sec. 457.303. ELECTION TO CHANGE TAX RATE. (a) At an election ordered under Section 457.301(b)(2), the ballots shall be printed to permit voting for or against the proposition: "The increase (decrease) of the local sales and use tax rate of (name of authority) to (percentage)." (…

Sec. 457.304. SALES TAX: EFFECTIVE DATES. (a) An authority's sales and use tax takes effect on the first day of the second calendar quarter that begins after the date the comptroller receives a copy of the order required to be sent under Section 457.053(h). (b) An increase or dec…

Sec. 457.351. ELECTION TO DISSOLVE AUTHORITY. (a) A board may order an election on the question of dissolving the authority. (b) The board shall dissolve the authority if the dissolution is approved by a majority of the votes cast. (c) The provisions of Section 457.053 that relat…

Sec. 457.352. WITHDRAWAL FROM AUTHORITY. (a) The governing body of a unit of election may order an election to withdraw the unit from an authority. (b) On the determination by a governing body of a unit of election that a petition for withdrawal under this chapter is valid, the g…

Sec. 457.353. PETITION FOR WITHDRAWAL. (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 sheets for…

Sec. 457.354. WITHDRAWAL ELECTION. (a) An election to withdraw from an authority must be held on the first applicable uniform election date occurring after the expiration of 12 calendar months after the date the governing body orders the election. (b) The governing body shall giv…

Sec. 457.355. PROCEDURE AFTER WITHDRAWAL ELECTION. (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 of the unit, t…

Sec. 458.001. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter: (1) "Public transportation" means mass transportation of passengers and their hand-carried packages or baggage on a regular and continuing basis by means of surface, fixed guideway, or underground transportation or transit, other than a…

Sec. 458.002. CONTRACTS WITH DEPARTMENT FOR PROVISION OF RURAL PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION SERVICES. A public transportation provider may contract with the department to provide rural public transportation services only if the provider becomes a rural transit district in compliance wit…

Sec. 458.003. RURAL PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION CONFERENCE. (a) The commissioners court of a county in which no provider on August 31, 1995, was receiving public transportation funds through the department must convene a rural public transportation conference before creating a rural tr…

Sec. 458.004. ATTENDANCE AT CONFERENCE. (a) An elected representative selected by the governing body of each municipality in each affected county and the commissioners court of each affected county shall attend a rural public transportation conference. (b) Representatives attendi…

Sec. 458.005. PUBLIC HEARING ON CREATION OF RURAL TRANSPORTATION DISTRICT; NOTICE. (a) If a conference finds it advisable to create a new rural transit district, the conference shall set a public hearing on the creation of the district. (b) Before the public hearing is convened, …

Sec. 458.006. GOVERNING BODY OF RURAL TRANSIT DISTRICT. (a) Not later than the 60th day after the date the boundaries of a rural transit district are established, the commissioners court of each county and one elected representative from the governing body of each municipality in…

Sec. 458.007. UNSERVED RURAL AREAS MAY JOIN RURAL TRANSIT DISTRICT. An unserved rural area may join an existing rural transit district on the adoption of a resolution by the commissioners court of the county to that effect. Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 30.36(a), e…

Sec. 458.008. MERGER OF RURAL TRANSIT DISTRICTS. (a) Two or more rural transit districts may merge into a new rural transit district. The territory of the new district must include all the territory of each merged district. (b) The merger is made when the governing board of each …

Sec. 458.009. URBAN TRANSIT DISTRICTS. (a) A public transportation provider that on September 1, 1994, was not receiving public transportation money through the department may contract with the department to provide small urban public transportation services and receive state or …

Sec. 458.010. GENERAL POWERS OF RURAL TRANSIT DISTRICTS. (a) In addition to a power expressly granted by this chapter, a rural transit district has any power necessary to carry out a purpose of the district. (b) A rural transit district may contract with the United States, a stat…

Sec. 458.011. ADDITIONAL POWERS OF RURAL OR URBAN TRANSIT DISTRICT. (a) A rural or urban transit district may contract with any governmental agency or private person, firm, or corporation for: (1) the use by either party to the contract of all or any part of a facility, structure…

Sec. 458.012. OPERATION OF LOCAL PUBLIC PASSENGER TRANSPORTATION IN RURAL TRANSIT DISTRICT PROHIBITED. (a) From the effective date a rural transit district begins providing a public transportation service, another person or private corporation may not operate a local public passe…

Sec. 460.001. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter: (1) "Authority" means a coordinated county transportation authority created under this chapter. (2) "Balance of the county" means that part of the county that is outside the boundaries of a municipality with a population of 12,000 or mo…

Sec. 460.002. APPLICABILITY. This chapter applies only to a county that is adjacent to a county with a population of more than one million. Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1186, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 2001.

Sec. 460.003. INELIGIBILITY OF CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES. (a) A municipality that is a member of a subregion of a transportation authority governed by a board described in Subchapter O, Chapter 452, is not eligible to join or become a member of an authority created under this chapte…

Sec. 460.004. REFERENCE. A reference in this chapter to the executive committee means the board of directors. Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 306, Sec. 2, eff. Sept. 1, 2003. SUBCHAPTER B. CREATION OF AUTHORITY

Sec. 460.051. CREATION OF AUTHORITY. (a) The commissioners court of a county may initiate the process to create an authority to provide public transportation and transportation-related services: (1) on adoption of a resolution or order initiating the process to create an authorit…

Sec. 460.052. HEARING. (a) The commissioners court shall hold a public hearing on creation of an authority not later than the 60th day after the date the commissioners court: (1) receives a petition described by Section 460.051(a)(2); or (2) adopts a resolution or order to initia…

Sec. 460.053. RESOLUTION OR ORDER. After the hearing, the commissioners court may adopt a resolution or order: (1) designating the name of the authority; (2) stating that all land within the county shall be part of the authority; and (3) stating that the territory described in Su…

Sec. 460.054. MEMBERSHIP OF INTERIM EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. (a) After adopting a resolution or order under Section 460.053, the commissioners court and certain municipalities, as provided by this section, shall appoint an interim executive committee for the authority. (b) The interi…

Sec. 460.055. DUTIES OF INTERIM EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. (a) The interim executive committee shall elect three of its members to serve as the chair, vice chair, and secretary. (b) The interim executive committee shall develop a service plan and determine a proposed tax not later than…

Sec. 460.056. APPROVAL OF SERVICE PLAN AND TAX RATE. (a) On approval by the interim executive committee of the service plan and tax rate, a copy of the plan and tax rate shall be provided to the commissioners court and the governing body of each municipality with a population of …