Sec. 311.051. REGULATION OF STREET RAILWAY BY TYPE A GENERAL-LAW MUNICIPALITY  


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  • (a) The governing body of a Type A general-law municipality may:

    (1) require a street railway company to:

    (A) keep the company's roads in repair;

    (B) conform the area in which the company's tracks lie to the grade of the street on which they lie, if the municipality has graded the street; or

    (C) take measures to provide for the safe and convenient travel of people on the street on which the company's tracks lie; or

    (2) regulate the speed of vehicles that use the company's tracks.

    (b) The governing body by ordinance may establish penalties to enforce a regulation adopted under this section.

Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.