{"data":{"id":"us-tx/tex.-transportation-code-203.002","jurisdiction":"us-tx","citation":"Tex. Transportation Code § 203.002","heading":"MODERN STATE HIGHWAY SYSTEM.","body":"To promote public safety, facilitate the movement of traffic, preserve the public's financial investment in highways, promote the national defense, and accomplish the purposes of this chapter, the commission may:\n(1) lay out, construct, maintain, and operate a modern state highway system, with emphasis on the construction of controlled access highways;\n(2) plan for future highways; and\n(3) convert where necessary an existing street, road, or highway into a controlled access highway in accordance with modern standards of speed and safety.\nActs 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.\nAmended by:\nActs 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 87 (S.B. 1969), Sec. 23.001, eff. September 1, 2009.","path":["TRANSPORTATION CODE","TITLE 6. ROADWAYS","SUBTITLE A. TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION","CHAPTER 203. MODERNIZATION OF STATE HIGHWAYS; CONTROLLED ACCESS HIGHWAYS","SUBCHAPTER A. GENERAL PROVISIONS"],"source_url":"https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/TN/htm/TN.203.htm#203.002","current_through":"89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T01:47:44Z","sha256":"888c66057469853836244721383ae8486979f1e5ba6d28d5b82fb68ddd7cc42b","source_id":"us-tx","stale":false,"prev":"us-tx/tex.-transportation-code-203.001","next":"us-tx/tex.-transportation-code-203.003"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}