Texas Laws | Transportation Code (c) The ballot for the election shall be printed to permit voting for or against the proposition: "Adopting the Optional County Road System in Gregg County." (13020) (d) If the majority of the votes cast in the election favor adoption, the optional county road system takes effect and Chapter 339, Acts of the 54th Legislature, Regular Session, 1955, has no effect. (13021) (e) If a majority of the votes cast in the election do not favor adoption: (13022) (1) Chapter 339, Acts of the 54th Legislature, Regular Session, 1955, remains in effect; and (13023) (2) another election on the question of adopting the optional county road system may not be held before the first anniversary of the most recent election on the proposition. (13024) Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995. (13025) SUBTITLE E. MUNICIPAL STREETS (13026)(Text)CHAPTER 311. GENERAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO MUNICIPAL STREETS (13027)(Text)SUBCHAPTER A. GENERAL AUTHORITY (13028)(Text)(a) A home-rule municipality has exclusive control over and under the public highways, streets, and alleys of the municipality. (13030) (b) The municipality may: (13031) (1) control, regulate, or remove an encroachment or obstruction on a public street or alley of the municipality; (13032) (2) open or change a public street or alley of the municipality; or (13033) (3) improve a public highway, street, or alley of the municipality. (13034) (c) Notwithstanding Subsection (a) or (b) or Section 311.007, before a municipality with a population of 1.9 million or more may install traffic calming measures within the municipality, the governing body of the municipality must: (13035) (1) publish standards and criteria, which must include sufficient notice to allow the governing body to receive and consider public comments from residents within one-half mile of the proposed traffic calming measure; (13036) (2) on request of affected residents, schedule and hold a public meeting before implementation of the measure; and (13037) (3) if the measure involves the closure of a street to motor vehicular traffic, before the closure: (13038) (A) hold a public hearing on the issue of the closure; and (13039) (B) approve the closure by a majority vote. (13040) Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995. (13041) Amended by: (13042) Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 1321 (H.B. 3082), Sec. 1, eff. June 19, 2009. (13043) (a) A general-law municipality has exclusive control over the highways, streets, and alleys of the municipality. (13045) (b) The municipality may: (13046) (1) abate or remove an encroachment or obstruction on a highway, street, or alley; (13047) (2) open, change, regulate, or improve a street; or (13048) (3) put a drain or sewer in a street, prevent the obstruction of the drain or sewer, or protect the drain or sewer from encroachment or damage. (13049) (c) To carry out its powers under this section, the municipality may: (13050) (1) regulate or change the grade of land; and (13051) (2) require that the grade of land be raised by filling an area. (13052) Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995. (13053) The governing body of a Type A general-law municipality may: (13055) (1) prevent an encroachment or obstruction on a sidewalk in the municipality; (13056) (2) abate an encroachment or obstruction on a bridge, culvert, sidewalk, or crossway in the municipality; (13057) (3) construct, regulate, or maintain a bridge, culvert, sidewalk, or crossway in the municipality; (13058) (4) regulate the construction of a bridge, culvert, sewer, sidewalk, or crossway in the municipality; (13059) (5) require a person to keep weeds, unclean matter, or trash from the street, sidewalk, or gutter in front of the person's premises; or (13060) (6) require the owner of land to improve the sidewalk in front of the person's land. (13061) Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995. (13062) A home-rule municipality may: (13064) (1) construct a sidewalk; (13065) (2) provide for the improvement of a sidewalk or the construction of a curb under an ordinance enforced by a penal provision; or (13066) (3) declare a defective sidewalk to be a public nuisance. (13067) Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995. (13068) A home-rule municipality may regulate the movement of a structure over or on a street of the municipality. (13070) Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995. (13071) To facilitate travel on a street in a Type B general-law municipality, the commissioners court of a county may construct a bridge for or otherwise improve the street if: (13073)
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