(a) The governing body of a municipality may transfer to an authority created under this chapter:
- (1) property and employees of a division of the municipality that before the creation of the authority was responsible for municipal public transportation; and
- (2) municipal funds that may be used for mass transit.
- (b) The governing body may abolish or change the functions of the municipal division formerly responsible for municipal public transportation.
- (c) If an authority is required to be dissolved under this chapter, the board, on dissolution of the authority, shall transfer to a municipality the funds, property, and employees that were transferred to the authority under this section. The governing body of the municipality may then re-create or change the duties of any municipal division abolished or changed as a result of transfers made under this section.
Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 30.35(a), eff. Sept. 1, 1997.