Texas Transportation Code 203.034 – Right to Access; Damages for Denial of Access
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(a) An owner of real property adjoining a new controlled access highway location is not entitled to access to the new highway location as a matter of right.
(b) Denial of access to or from a new controlled access highway location is not a ground for special or exemplary damages unless:
(1) in connection with the purchase or condemnation of the real property adjoining the new controlled access highway location and to be used in the new highway location, the commission specifically authorizes access to or from particular real property adjoining the new highway location; and
(2) the commission denies highway access to or from the particular land where the real property adjoins the new highway.
Terms Used In Texas Transportation Code 203.034
- Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
- Property: means real and personal property. See Texas Government Code 311.005
- Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.