83R7110 MMC-D
 
  By: Bell H.B. No. 1384
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the authority of a county road department to accept
  donations.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter D, Chapter 252, Transportation Code,
  is amended by adding Section 252.314 to read as follows:
         Sec. 252.314.  DONATIONS. (a)  A commissioners court or the
  county road department may accept donations of labor, money, or
  other property to aid in the building or maintaining of roads in the
  county.
         (b)  A county operating under the county road department
  system on September 1, 2013, may use the authority granted under
  this section without holding a new election under Section 252.301.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.