Sec. 458.012.  OPERATION OF LOCAL PUBLIC PASSENGER TRANSPORTATION IN RURAL TRANSIT DISTRICT PROHIBITED.  (a)  From the effective date a rural transit district begins providing a public transportation service, another person or private corporation may not operate a local public passenger transportation service in the rural transit district, except as provided by Subsection (b).
(b)  Subsection (a) does not apply to:
(1)  the operation of:
(A)  a taxicab;  or
(B)  a bus owned or operated by a corporation or organization exclusively for a purpose of the corporation or organization and for the use of which a fee or fare is not charged;
(2)  an intercity passenger rail service;
(3)  an intercity bus carrier;  or
(4)  a rural public transportation provider operating under an agreement entered into under this chapter that provides local public passenger transportation service.
Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 30.36(a), eff. Sept. 1, 1997.