{"data":{"id":"us-tx/tex.-transportation-code-454.001","jurisdiction":"us-tx","citation":"Tex. Transportation Code § 454.001","heading":"AUTHORITY.","body":"(a) A municipality may own, purchase, construct, improve, extend, and operate a mass transportation system to carry passengers for hire within the municipality, its suburbs, and adjacent areas.\n(b) A municipality, individually or in cooperation with the United States, may:\n(1) undertake research, development, and demonstration projects for a mass transportation system in the municipality, its suburbs, and adjacent areas; and\n(2) acquire, construct, and improve a facility or equipment for use, by operation, lease, or otherwise, in mass transportation service in those areas on, under, over, along, or across a public street or highway and on real property, an easement, or a right-of-way acquired for that purpose.\nActs 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.","path":["TRANSPORTATION CODE","TITLE 6. ROADWAYS","SUBTITLE K. MASS TRANSPORTATION","CHAPTER 454. MUNICIPAL MASS TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS","SUBCHAPTER A. GENERAL PROVISIONS"],"source_url":"https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/TN/htm/TN.454.htm#454.001","current_through":"89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T01:47:44Z","sha256":"99e252ac23d7352e4948462de51b141645c57a643dbbca1255c1bd39424e5bfa","source_id":"us-tx","stale":false,"prev":"us-tx/tex.-transportation-code-453.454","next":"us-tx/tex.-transportation-code-454.002"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}