Texas Transportation Code
§ 370.172 — REVENUE
TN § 370.172Title 6. ROADWAYS · Part G. TURNPIKES AND TOLL PROJECTS · Ch. 370. REGIONAL MOBILITY AUTHORITIES · Art. E. ACQUISITION, CONSTRUCTION, AND OPERATION OF TRANSPORTATION PROJECTS
Statute text
View on source(a)An authority may:
(1)impose tolls, fees, fares, or other charges for the use of each of its transportation projects and the different parts or sections of each of its transportation projects; and
(2)subject to Subsection (j), contract with a person for the use of part of a transportation project, or lease or sell part of a transportation project, including the right-of-way adjoining the portion used to transport people and property, for any purpose, including placing on the adjoining right-of-way a gas station, garage, store, hotel, restaurant, parking facility, railroad track, billboard, livestock pasturage, telephone line or facility, telecommunication line or facility, data transmission line or facility, or electric line or facility, under terms set by the authority.
(b)Tolls, fees, fares, or other charges must be set at rates or amounts so that the aggregate of tolls, fees, fares, or other charges from an authority's transportation project, together with other revenue of the transportation project:
(1)provides revenue sufficient to pay:
(A)the cost of maintaining, repairing, and operating the transportation project;
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Legislative history
Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 1279 (H.B. 1112), Sec. 9, eff. June 17, 2011.