Texas Transportation Code
§ 366.037 — OTHER HIGHWAY PROJECTS
TN § 366.037Title 6. ROADWAYS · Part G. TURNPIKES AND TOLL PROJECTS · Ch. 366. REGIONAL TOLLWAY AUTHORITIES · Art. B. CREATION AND POWERS OF REGIONAL TOLLWAY AUTHORITIES
Statute text
View on source(a)In addition to the powers granted under this chapter and without supervision or regulation by any state agency or local governmental entity, but subject to an agreement entered into under Subsection (c), the board of an authority may by resolution, and on making the findings set forth in this subsection, authorize the use of surplus revenue of a turnpike project or system for the study, design, construction, maintenance, repair, and operation of a highway or similar facility that is not a turnpike project if the highway or similar facility is:
(1)situated in a county in which the authority is authorized to design, construct, and operate a turnpike project;
(2)anticipated to either:
(A)enhance the operation or revenue of an existing, or the feasibility of a proposed, turnpike project by bringing traffic to that turnpike project or enhancing the flow of traffic either on that turnpike project or to or from that turnpike project to another facility; or
(B)ameliorate the impact of an existing or proposed turnpike project by enhancing the capability of another facility to handle traffic traveling, or anticipated to travel, to or from that turnpike project; and
(3)not anticipated to result in an overall reduction of revenue of any turnpike project or system.
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Legislative history
Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 264 (S.B. 792), Sec. 9.05, eff. June 11, 2007.