Section 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.Tex. Transp. Code § 463.056
Added by Acts 2019, Texas Acts of the 86th Leg.- Regular Session, ch. 151,Sec. 1, eff. 5/24/2019.