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Tex. Transportation Code § 286.063: PUBLIC NECESSITY FOR ADDITIONAL ROADS; PURPOSE.
Where this section sits in the code
- TRANSPORTATION CODE
- TITLE 6. ROADWAYS
- SUBTITLE D. ROAD LAWS RELATING TO PARTICULAR COUNTIES
- CHAPTER 286. ROAD LAWS RELATING TO SPECIFIC COUNTIES
- SUBCHAPTER C. ROADS TO PUBLIC STREAMS AND LAKES AND OTHER PUBLIC WATER IN LEON AND MADISON COUNTIES
(a) A public necessity for additional roads is created by the lack of adequate roads for general public access to a navigable stream, public lake, or the shore of a lake.
(b) There is a public necessity for a road under this subchapter if a bank or shore of public water is inaccessible to the general public.
(c) The purpose of this subchapter is to establish a road to make accessible to the general public a bank or shore of public water that is fenced in and inaccessible.
(d) A bank or shore of public water is inaccessible to the general public under this section if:
(1) the bank or shore extends for more than five miles without a public road to furnish access to the bank or shore; or
(2) there is an area of five or more miles on the bank or shore without a road to furnish public access to the bank or shore.
Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.
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