Texas Transportation Code
§ 452.717 — RESULTS OF ELECTION; ORDER
TN § 452.717Title 6. ROADWAYS · Part K. MASS TRANSPORTATION · Ch. 452. REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITIES · Art. R. CREATION OF AUTHORITIES
Statute text
View on source(a)In each unit of election in which a majority of the votes received in the unit favor the proposition, the authority is confirmed and continues inclusive of each of those units, except that the authority ceases in every unit of election in a subregion if the authority is not confirmed:
(1)in the principal municipality of the subregion; or
(2)in contiguous units of election in the subregion in which the population when aggregated in all those units exceeds 300,000.
(b)The interim executive committee may exclude from the authority and proposed tax a unit of election because the unit is not contiguous to the existing authority and would create a fiscal hardship on the authority. The committee shall notify the appropriate governing body in writing that the unit is excluded under this subsection.
(c)If the authority continues, the interim executive committee shall record the results in its minutes and adopt an order:
(1)declaring that the creation of the authority is confirmed;
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Legislative history
Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.