Transportation Code § 463.056

Sec. 463.056. OPERATION OF PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM. (a) An authority may: (1) acquire, construct, develop, plan, own, operate, and maintain a public transportation system in the territory of the authority, including in the territory of a political subdivision; (2) contract with a municipality, county, or other political subdivision for the authority to provide public transportation services outside the authority; and (3) lease all or a part of the public transportation system to, or contract for the operation of all or a part of the public transportation system by, an operator. (b) An authority, as the authority determines advisable, shall determine routes. (c) The executive committee may submit a referendum for the approval of a power granted by Subsection (a) or (b). (d) A private operator who contracts with an authority under this chapter is not a public entity for purposes of any law of this state except that an independent contractor of the authority that performs a function of the authority is liable for damages only to the extent that the authority would be liable if the authority itself were performing the function. Added by Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 151 (H.B. 71), Sec. 1, eff. May 24, 2019.