(a) In the development and maintenance of the state highway system, the commission shall provide for the:
- (1) efficient maintenance of the system;
- (2) construction, in cooperation with the United States to the extent of federal aid to the state, of durable highways of the greatest public necessity;
- (3) construction of highways to perfect and extend a correlated system of state highways, independently from state funds; and
- (4) construction of highways to provide access to significant new naval military facilities and to provide for the state highway system in impacted regions.
- (b) Subsection (a) shall be implemented from funds available to the department except that Subsection (a)(4) shall be implemented only from the state highway fund.
- (c) In this section, "significant new naval military facility" and "impacted region" have the meanings assigned by Section 4, Article 1, National Defense Impacted Region Assistance Act of 1985 (Article 689a-4d, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes).
Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.