Texas Transportation Code
§ 199.002 — RAILROAD FUNCTIONS AS PUBLIC AND GOVERNMENTAL FUNCTIONS
TN § 199.002Title 5. RAILROADS · Part Z. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS · Ch. 199. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
Statute text
View on source(a)In this section:
(1)"Railroad" means an enterprise created and operated to carry passengers, freight, or both on a fixed track. The term includes all real estate and interests in real estate, equipment, machinery, materials, structures, buildings, stations, facilities, and other improvements that are necessary to, or for the benefit of, the enterprise.
(2)"Municipality" means a home-rule municipality.
(b)The planning, acquisition, establishment, development, construction, enlarging, improvement, maintenance, equipping, operation, regulation, protection, policing, leasing, and alienation of a railroad or railroad facility by a municipality or other public agency, separately or jointly exercised:
(1)are declared to be public and governmental functions that are exercised for a public purpose and matters of public necessity; and
(2)in the case of a municipality, are declared to be municipal functions and purposes as well as public and governmental.
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Legislative history
Added by Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1236 (S.B. 1296), Sec. 19.007(a), eff. September 1, 2015.