{"data":{"id":"us-tx/tex.-transportation-code-451.408","jurisdiction":"us-tx","citation":"Tex. Transportation Code § 451.408","heading":"RATE INCREASE: SALES AND USE TAX.","body":"(a) The board may order an election to increase the authority's sales and use tax rate.\n(b) The registered voters of an authority, by petition, may require an election to increase the authority's sales and use tax rate.\n(c) If the board has reduced the rate of the authority's sales and use tax without election, the board, by order, may increase the rate to a rate not in excess of the rate before the ordered decrease.\nActs 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.","path":["TRANSPORTATION CODE","TITLE 6. ROADWAYS","SUBTITLE K. MASS TRANSPORTATION","CHAPTER 451. METROPOLITAN RAPID TRANSIT AUTHORITIES","SUBCHAPTER I. TAXATION"],"source_url":"https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/TN/htm/TN.451.htm#451.408","current_through":"89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T01:47:44Z","sha256":"2cdce015d8c114fde8512deea3f140c83fc128dad0bdc45af1da542655bb2b29","source_id":"us-tx","stale":false,"prev":"us-tx/tex.-transportation-code-451.407","next":"us-tx/tex.-transportation-code-451.409"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}