Texas Transportation Code - TRANSP § 457.001. Definitions

(1) “Authority” means a mass transit authority created under this chapter or former Article 1118z-1, Revised Statutes.

(2) “Board” means the governing body of an authority.

(3) “Bond” includes a note.

(4) “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.

(5) “Principal municipality” means the municipality of greatest population in a county to which this chapter applies.

(6) “Transit authority system” means:

(7) “Unit of election” means a municipality, including the principal municipality, or the unincorporated area of a county.

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