Texas Transportation Code

§ 456.001 — DEFINITIONS

TN § 456.001Title 6. ROADWAYS · Part K. MASS TRANSPORTATION · Ch. 456. STATE FINANCING OF PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION · Art. A. GENERAL PROVISIONS

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In this chapter:

(1)"Capital improvement" means the acquisition, construction, or improvement of a facility, equipment, or real property for use in public transportation service. The term includes designing, engineering, supervising, inspecting, surveying, mapping, relocation, right-of-way acquisition, housing replacement, and other expenses incidental to the acquisition, construction, or improvement.

(2)"Designated recipient" means an entity that receives money from the United States or this state for public transportation through the department or the Federal Transit Administration or the administration's successor and is a transit authority, a municipality not included in a transit authority, a local governmental body, another political subdivision of this state, or a nonprofit entity providing rural public transportation service.

(3)"Federal-Aid Highway Act" means the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1973 (49 U.S.C. Section 1602a).

(4)"Federal Transit Act" means the Federal Transit Act (49 U.S.C. Section 5301 et seq.) and includes the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964.

(5)"Federally financed project" means a public transportation project that is partially financed under a program of the United States for financing public transportation.

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Legislative history

Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 36 (H.B. 1140), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2017.