Transportation Code, §284.009 authorizes the Texas Transportation Commission (commission) to convey a non-toll state highway or a segment of a non-toll state highway to a county for operation and maintenance as a toll road project under Transportation Code, Chapter 284. Transportation Code, §362.051 provides that a governmental or private entity must obtain the commission's approval before beginning construction of a toll road, toll bridge, or turnpike that is to be part of the state highway system. This subchapter prescribes policies and procedures governing commission approval of the transfer of a non-toll segment of the state highway system to a county and the approval of a county toll road project that is to be part of the state highway system.

Source Note:The provisions of this §27.70 adopted to be effective March 18, 2004, 29 TexReg 2746.