Texas Transportation Code

§ 174.352 — IMPOSITION OF TAX

TN § 174.352Title 5. RAILROADS · Part I. SPECIAL DISTRICTS · Ch. 174. COMMUTER RAIL DISTRICTS · Art. H. TAXES

Statute text

(a)A district may not impose a tax or increase the rate of an existing tax unless a proposition proposing the imposition or rate increase is approved by a majority of the votes received at an election held for that purpose.

(b)Each new tax or rate increase must be expressed in a separate proposition consisting of a brief statement of the nature of the proposed tax.

(c)The notice of the election must contain a statement of the base or rate of the proposed tax.

Legislative history

Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 85 (S.B. 1540), Sec. 2.04, eff. April 1, 2011.