Texas Transportation Code - TRANSP § 201.103. Comprehensive System of Highways and Roads

(a) The commission shall plan and make policies for the location, construction, and maintenance of a comprehensive system of state highways and public roads.

(b) The commission shall designate as part of the state highway system a highway that it determines is necessary for the proper development and operation of the system. The commission may remove a segment of the state highway system that it determines is not needed for the system. In planning and making policies, the commission shall consider, for incorporation into the state highway system, turnpikes that other governmental or private entities are authorized to construct.

(c) Repealed by Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., ch. 1312 (S.B. 59), § 99(29).

(d) The director, under the direction and with the approval of the commission, shall prepare a comprehensive plan providing a system of state highways.