Texas Transportation Code

§ 254.009 — DRAINAGE SYSTEM SURVEY

TN § 254.009Title 6. ROADWAYS · Part C. COUNTY ROADS AND BRIDGES · Ch. 254. DRAINAGE ON PUBLIC ROADS

Statute text

(a)After approval of a petition under Section 254.004, the commissioners court shall hire a surveyor to conduct a survey under this section for an amount determined by the court at the same meeting or at a subsequent term of court. The surveyor must be an engineer.

(b)The survey shall be applied first to the first-class roads, followed by the second-class and third-class roads.

(c)The surveyor shall make the survey and system of levels required by this section as soon as practicable after the surveyor is employed.

(d)The surveyor shall:

(1)run a line of levels along the county's public roads, measure the roads from beginning to end, and measure the distance of each waterway crossed by a public road from the location of the beginning of the waterway;

(2)place stakes or monuments along the line at intervals of 100 feet, with intermediate stakes that may be necessary, numbered progressively;

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Legislative history

Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.