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Texas · Through 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025

Tex. Transportation Code § 311.051: REGULATION OF STREET RAILWAY BY TYPE A GENERAL-LAW MUNICIPALITY.

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  1. TRANSPORTATION CODE
  2. TITLE 6. ROADWAYS
  3. SUBTITLE E. MUNICIPAL STREETS
  4. CHAPTER 311. GENERAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO MUNICIPAL STREETS
  5. SUBCHAPTER C. AUTHORITY RELATING TO RAIL TRANSPORTATION

(a) The governing body of a Type A general-law municipality may:

(1) require a street railway company to:

(A) keep the company's roads in repair;

(B) conform the area in which the company's tracks lie to the grade of the street on which they lie, if the municipality has graded the street; or

(C) take measures to provide for the safe and convenient travel of people on the street on which the company's tracks lie; or

(2) regulate the speed of vehicles that use the company's tracks.

(b) The governing body by ordinance may establish penalties to enforce a regulation adopted under this section.

Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.

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