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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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AN ACT
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relating to the relationship between Texas Department of |
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Transportation toll projects and adjoining nontolled roads. |
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 228, Transportation Code, |
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is amended by adding Section 228.014 to read as follows: |
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Sec. 228.014. PROHIBITION ON DISINCENTIVES FOR ADJOINING |
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NONTOLLED ROAD USE. (a) The department may not take any action in |
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designing, constructing, or operating a toll project under this |
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chapter that incentivizes the use of the project and discourages |
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the use of adjoining nontolled roads by violating sound engineering |
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judgment in applying traffic controls on any adjoining nontolled |
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roads, including by timing traffic signals to unnecessarily disrupt |
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traffic flow on the adjoining nontolled roads. |
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(b) If existing nontolled lanes are reconstructed and |
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operated as an adjacent road to a toll facility under Section |
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228.201(a)(5), the reconstructed nontolled lanes must have access, |
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function, and traffic control devices similar to those the lanes |
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had before being reconstructed. |
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SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. |