Texas Transportation Code
§ 471.004 — WARNING SIGN VISIBILITY AT RAILROAD GRADE CROSSINGS
TN § 471.004Title 6. ROADWAYS · Part Z. MISCELLANEOUS ROADWAY PROVISIONS · Ch. 471. RAILROAD AND ROADWAY CROSSINGS
Statute text
View on source(a)The department shall develop guidelines and specifications for the installation and maintenance of reflecting material at each unsignaled crossing. The material shall be affixed to the back and support post of each crossbuck in a manner that reflects light from vehicle headlights to focus attention on the presence of the unsignaled crossing.
(b)The department shall pay the cost of initial installation of reflecting material from money appropriated to the department to maintain grade crossing warning devices. The department or the local jurisdiction responsible for maintaining the roadway at each grade crossing shall pay the maintenance costs of the material.
(c)The state, an agency or political subdivision of the state, or a railway company is not liable for damages caused by an action taken under this section or failure to perform a duty imposed by this section. Evidence may not be introduced in a judicial proceeding that reflecting material exists or that the state or railway company relies on the material.
(d)The department shall adopt rules governing the installation and maintenance of reflecting material at grade crossings.
(e)A railway company shall permit department personnel to affix the reflecting material on the company's property.
(f)In this section:
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Legislative history
Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.