Texas Transportation Code - TRANSP § 453.001. Definitions

(1) “Board” means the governing body of a transit department.

(2) “Mass transit” means the transportation of passengers and hand-carried packages or baggage of a passenger by any means of surface, overhead, or underground transportation, other than an aircraft or taxicab.

(3) “Transit department” means a mass transit department created under this chapter or under former Article 1118z, Revised Statutes, enacted by Section 34, Article 1, Chapter 10, Acts of the 69th Legislature, 3rd Called Session, 1986.

(4) “Transit department system” means:

(5) “Transportation disadvantaged” has the meaning assigned by Section 451.001.