SUBCHAPTER D.  PUBLIC TRANSIT SYSTEM AND PARKING FACILITIES

Sec. 3844.151.  PUBLIC TRANSIT SYSTEM; PETITION REQUIRED.  (a)  The district may acquire, lease as lessor or lessee, construct, develop, own, operate, and maintain a public transit system to serve the area within the boundaries of the district.
(b)  Before the district may act under Subsection (a), a petition must be filed with the district requesting the action with regard to a public transit system.  The petition must be signed by owners of property representing a majority of either the total assessed value or the area of the real property in the district that abuts the right-of-way in which the public transit system is proposed to be located.  The determination of a majority is based on the property owners along the entire right-of-way of the proposed transit project and may not be calculated on a block-by-block basis.
Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 768 (H.B. 3517), Sec. 1, eff. June 17, 2005.