SECTION 27.91. Definitions

The following words and terms, when used in this subchapter, shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.

(1) Commission--The Texas Transportation Commission.

(2) Committee--A committee established under this subchapter.

(3) Comprehensive development agreement--An agreement with a private entity authorized under Transportation Code, Chapter 223, Subchapter E that, at a minimum, provides for the design and construction, reconstruction, extension, expansion, or improvement of a toll project and may also provide for the financing, acquisition, maintenance, or operation of a toll project.

(4) Concession agreement--A comprehensive development agreement under which a private entity agrees to develop, finance, and construct a toll project, and to assume operation or maintenance responsibilities for a toll project, in exchange for rights to revenue of the project.

(5) Department--The Texas Department of Transportation.

(6) Executive director--The executive director of the department or the executive director's designee.

(7) Local funds--Funds of a city or county, any other funds paid by a city or county to meet local participation requirements, and money deposited in a subaccount created under Transportation Code, §228.012.

(8) Local toll project entity--Has the meaning assigned by Transportation Code, §373.001.

(9) Metropolitan planning organization--The organization or policy board of an organization created and designated under 23 U.S.C. §134 and 49 U.S.C. §5303, as amended, to make transportation planning decisions for a metropolitan planning area in which a toll project is located and to carry out the metropolitan transportation planning process.

(10) Toll project--Has the meaning assigned by Transportation Code, §201.001.

Source Note: The provisions of this §27.91 adopted to be effective September 15, 2011, 36 TexReg 5951; amended to be effective September 14, 2016, 41 TexReg 7135