Sec. 457.001.  DEFINITIONS.  In this chapter:
(1)  "Authority" means a mass transit authority created under this chapter or former Article 1118z-1, Revised Statutes.
(2)  "Board" means the governing body of an authority.
(3)  "Bond" includes a note.
(4)  "Mass transit" means the transportation of passengers and hand-carried packages or baggage of a passenger by any means of surface, overhead, or underground transportation, other than an aircraft or taxicab.
(5)  "Principal municipality" means the municipality of greatest population in a county to which this chapter applies.
(6)  "Transit authority system" means:
(A)  property owned or held by an authority for mass transit purposes;  and
(B)  facilities necessary or convenient for:
(i)  the use of or access to mass transit by persons or vehicles;  or
(ii)  the protection or environmental enhancement of mass transit.
(7)  "Unit of election" means a municipality, including the principal municipality, or the unincorporated area of a county.
(8)  "Transportation disadvantaged" has the meaning assigned by Section 451.001.
Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 30.35(a), eff. Sept. 1, 1997.  Amended by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1038, Sec. 9, eff. Sept. 1, 2001.