Terms Used In Texas Transportation Code 91.092

  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Effects: includes all personal property and all interest in that property. See Texas Government Code 312.011
  • 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.

Property necessary or convenient for the department’s acquisition, construction, maintenance, or operation of rail facilities includes an interest in real property or a property right the commission determines is necessary or convenient to provide:
(1) right-of-way for a location for:
(A) a rail facility; or
(B) the future expansion of a rail facility;
(2) land for mitigation of adverse environmental effects;
(3) buffer zones for scenic or safety purposes; and
(4) revenue for use in acquiring, constructing, maintaining, or operating a rail facility or system, including revenue received under a contract described by Section 91.074(c).