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2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 49 - Education--Public › Chapter 12 - County Unit System › Article 2740f-5. County Unit System in Counties of 27,000 to 30,000 › Section 4. Election on Tax

Sec. 4. ELECTION ON TAX.  On the petition of as many as one hundred (100) legally qualified property taxpaying voters of any county which shall have adopted the provisions of this Act, praying for the authority to levy and collect said tax, the County Judge shall immediately order an election to be held throughout the county, said election to be held not more than thirty (30) days from the date of such order.  The County Judge shall give notice of such election by publication of the order in some newspaper published in the county for twenty (20) days prior to the date of such election.  Only legally qualified property taxpaying voters, who own property in the county and who have duly rendered the same for taxation, shall be allowed to vote in said election.  The form of ballot is substantially as follows:
"For County Tax;"  or
"Against County Tax"
The Commissioners Court shall, at its next regular meeting, canvass the returns of said election, and if a majority of the votes cast shall favor such tax, the court shall declare the result and certify same to the County Board of School Trustees and to the County Tax Assessor and Collector, and said Board of County School Trustees shall thereupon be authorized to levy said tax and the County Tax Assessor and Collector shall be authorized to assess and collect same.  No election to revoke said tax shall be ordered until the expiration of three (3) years from the date of the election at which said tax was adopted.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 49 - Education--Public › Chapter 12 - County Unit System › Article 2740f-5. County Unit System in Counties of 27,000 to 30,000 › Section 5. Assessment and Collection of Tax

Sec. 5. ASSESSMENT AND COLLECTION OF TAX.  In the counties adopting the provisions of this law, the County Tax Assessor shall assess all of the taxable property in the county at the same rate of valuation as it is assessed for state and county purposes, and the County Tax Collector shall collect said tax at the same time and in the same manner as other state and county taxes are collected.  The Tax Collector shall deposit the money collected from said tax in a separate fund to be known as the County Equalization Fund for the support of the public schools of the county.  He shall have the same authority, and the same laws shall apply in the collection of said tax as in the collection of county ad valorem taxes.  He shall, on or about the 10th of each month, make a report to the County Board of School Trustees and to the County Superintendent of Schools, showing all moneys collected by him during the last month by said tax, and shall each month place such funds in the equalization fund.  The County Superintendent shall keep a record, both received and paid out, of all money from said fund.  The officers assessing and collecting said equalization tax shall receive therefor the same compensation as is paid for assessing and collecting school taxes in common school districts.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 49 - Education--Public › Chapter 12 - County Unit System › Article 2740f-5. County Unit System in Counties of 27,000 to 30,000 › Section 6. Bond

Sec. 6. BOND.  The Tax Collector, before entering upon the duties of his office, shall enter into a bond, with two (2) or more good and sufficient sureties, or surety bond, for the protection of said equalization fund, said bond to be made payable to the County Board of School Trustees, and to be made in a sum not less than double the amount of money which he may have in his possession of said fund at any time.  The amount of said bond shall be fixed by the County Board of School Trustees.  The County Board shall require a similar bond of any and all other persons or corporations in whose possession such funds may be kept.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 49 - Education--Public › Chapter 12 - County Unit System › Article 2740f-5. County Unit System in Counties of 27,000 to 30,000 › Section 7. Distribution of Tax Money

Sec. 7. DISTRIBUTION OF TAX MONEY.  The County Board of School Trustees shall distribute the money collected from any taxes levied by said District under the provisions of this Act to the common and independent districts of the county according to the financial needs of said school districts.  The County Board of School Trustees shall determine the needs of said respective school districts and allocate said funds to said respective school districts so as to provide a salary of not less than Two Thousand ($2,000.00) Dollars per year to any teacher employed in any school within the county complying with the provisions of this Act.  If the funds received by any such school district from the State Available School Fund, from the rural aid funds provided by the state and from the local taxes received by such school district, together with any funds received from any other source, are insufficient to provide the minimum salary, it shall be the duty of said County School Board to provide from the funds derived by the tax levied under the provisions of this Act sufficient funds to enable such school district to pay said minimum salary.  After said school trustees shall have provided for the said minimum salary for all teachers employed in the public schools of such county, it shall be their duty to allocate and distribute the remaining funds provided by the tax to be levied under the provisions of this Act in such manner as to them shall appear best in assisting those schools that are in most need of said funds.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 49 - Education--Public › Chapter 12 - County Unit System › Article 2740f-5. County Unit System in Counties of 27,000 to 30,000 › Section 8. Trustees' Duties and Powers Not Affected; Levy and Collection of Tax

Sec. 8. TRUSTEES' DUTIES AND POWERS NOT AFFECTED;  LEVY AND COLLECTION OF TAX.  This Act shall not have the effect of changing any duties imposed on or powers conferred on the trustees of any common or independent school districts situated in the counties covered by this Act, unless and except as expressly provided herein;  it being the intention of this law that said respective Boards of Trustees shall continue to administer their lawful duties and powers as now authorized by law, but the equalization tax authorized shall be levied by the County Board of School Trustees and assessed and collected by the County Tax Assessor and Collector.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 49 - Education--Public › Chapter 12 - County Unit System › Article 2740f-5. County Unit System in Counties of 27,000 to 30,000 › Section 9. Partial Invalidity; Repeal of Conflicting Laws

Sec. 9. PARTIAL INVALIDITY;  REPEAL OF CONFLICTING LAWS.  In case any clause, sentence, paragraph, section or part of this Act shall be held unconstitutional or void, then, and in that event, it shall not affect any other clause, sentence, paragraph, section or part of this Act.  All laws, or parts of laws, both general and special, in conflict with this Act, are hereby repealed.
Acts 1947, 50th Leg., p. 800, ch. 399.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 49 - Education--Public › Chapter 12 - County Unit System › Article 2740g. County Unit School System in Counties Having Large Areas in Reforestation › Section 1. Taxing Power

Section 1. TAXING POWER.  Any county in this State wherein the United States Government has acquired or shall hereafter acquire large tracts of land containing one thousand (1,000) acres or more or wherein such lands have been approved by the United States Government for purchase for the purpose of reforestation and whose assessed valuation of property is not less than Forty Million Dollars ($40,000,000), shall have a county unit system of education to the extent specified in this Act, and for the purpose of levying, assessing and collecting a school equalization tax, and for such other administrative functions as are herein set forth;  the territory of each of such counties may be created into a county wide school district in the manner hereinafter provided and may exercise the taxing power as hereinafter provided.  There shall be exercised in and for the entire territory of each of such counties, to the extent in this Act prescribed, the taxing power conferred on school districts by Article 7, Section 3, of the Constitution, but such taxing power shall not be exercised until and unless authorized by a majority of the qualified property taxpaying voters residing therein at an election to be held for that purpose as hereinafter provided.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 49 - Education--Public › Chapter 12 - County Unit System › Article 2740g. County Unit School System in Counties Having Large Areas in Reforestation › Section 2. Petition, Notice of Election and Ballot

Sec. 2. PETITION, NOTICE OF ELECTION AND BALLOT.  On the petition of as many as one hundred (100) legally qualified voters of any county coming under the provisions of this Act praying for the formation of such county wide school district, the County Judge shall, within thirty (30) days, order an election to be held throughout the county.  The County Judge shall give notice of the date of such election by publication of the order in some newspaper published in the county for twenty (20) days prior to the date of such election, and all legally qualified voters shall be allowed to vote at said election.  The form of ballot shall be substantially as follows:
"For Equalization District"
"Against Equalization District"
The Commissioners Court shall at its next regular meeting canvass the returns of said election, and if a majority of votes cast shall favor the formation of such district, the Court shall declare the result thereof and declare the county wide school equalization district duly and legally created and the provisions of this Act duly adopted.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 49 - Education--Public › Chapter 12 - County Unit System › Article 2740g. County Unit School System in Counties Having Large Areas in Reforestation › Section 3. Supervision by County Board of Trustees

Sec. 3. SUPERVISION BY COUNTY BOARD OF TRUSTEES.  The general management, supervision and control of the public schools and of the educational interests of each county adopting the provisions of this law shall be vested in the county board of school trustees, except as otherwise provided by law, and said board shall perform such duties as are or may be required of it by existing law and by the provisions of this Act and shall constitute the board of trustees for such county wide district.  Any such county wide school equalization district formed in the manner hereinabove provided may levy and collect annually on all taxable property in the county an equalization tax not to exceed twenty-five (25) cents on the One Hundred Dollars ($100) valuation of property situated in said county, and the money derived from such tax shall be known as an equalization fund for the support of the public schools of the county, which fund shall be distributed to the school districts of the county as provided herein.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 49 - Education--Public › Chapter 12 - County Unit System › Article 2740g. County Unit School System in Counties Having Large Areas in Reforestation › Section 4. Petition and Election for Tax

Sec. 4. PETITION AND ELECTION FOR TAX.  On the petition of as many as one hundred (100) legally qualified property taxpaying voters of any county which shall have adopted the provisions of this Act, praying for the authority to levy and collect said tax, the County Judge shall immediately order an election to be held throughout the county, said election to be held not more than thirty (30) days from the date of such order.  The County Judge shall give notice of such election by publication of the order in some newspaper published in the county for twenty (20) days prior to the date of such election.  Only legally qualified property taxpaying voters, who own property in the county and who have duly rendered the same for taxation, shall be allowed to vote in said election.  The form of ballot is substantially as follows:
"For County Tax"
"Against County Tax"
The Commissioners Court shall, at its next regular meeting, canvass the returns of said election, and if a majority of the votes cast shall favor such tax, the Court shall declare the result and certify same to the county board of school trustees and to the county tax assessor and collector, and said board of county school trustees shall thereupon be authorized to levy said tax and the county tax assessor and collector shall be authorized to assess and collect same.  No election to revoke said tax shall be ordered until the expiration of three (3) years from the date of the election at which said tax was adopted.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 49 - Education--Public › Chapter 12 - County Unit System › Article 2740g. County Unit School System in Counties Having Large Areas in Reforestation › Section 5. Assessment and Collection of Tax, Segregation as County Equalization Fund

Sec. 5. ASSESSMENT AND COLLECTION OF TAX, SEGREGATION AS COUNTY EQUALIZATION FUND.  In the counties adopting the provisions of this law, the county tax assessor shall assess all of the taxable property in the county at the same rate of valuation as it is assessed for State and county purposes, and the county tax collector shall collect said tax at the same time and in the same manner as other State and county taxes are collected.  The tax collector shall deposit the money collected from said tax in a separate fund to be known as the County Equalization Fund for the support of the public schools of the county.  He shall have the same authority, and the same laws shall apply in the collection of said tax as in the collection of county ad valorem taxes.  He shall, on or about the tenth of each month, make a report to the county board of school trustees and to the county superintendent of schools, showing all moneys collected by him during the last month by said tax, and shall each month place such funds in the equalization fund.  The county superintendent shall keep a record, both received and paid out, of all money from said fund.  The officers assessing and collecting said equalization tax shall receive therefor the same compensation as is paid for assessing and collecting school taxes in common school districts.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 49 - Education--Public › Chapter 12 - County Unit System › Article 2740g. County Unit School System in Counties Having Large Areas in Reforestation › Section 6. Bond of Tax Collector

Sec. 6. BOND OF TAX COLLECTOR.  The tax collector, before entering upon the duties of his office, shall enter into a bond, with two (2) or more good and sufficient sureties, or surety bond, for the protection of said equalization fund, said bond to be made payable to the county board of school trustees, and to be made in a sum not less than double the amount of money which he may have in his possession of said fund at any time.  The amount of said bond shall be fixed by the county board of school trustees.  The county board shall require a similar bond of any and all other persons or corporations in whose possession such funds may be kept.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 49 - Education--Public › Chapter 12 - County Unit System › Article 2740g. County Unit School System in Counties Having Large Areas in Reforestation › Section 7. Distribution of Taxes Collected

Sec. 7. DISTRIBUTION OF TAXES COLLECTED.  The county board of school trustees shall distribute the money collected from any taxes levied by said district to the common and independent districts of the county on a per capita basis according to the number of scholastic pupils shown by the last preceding official scholastic census, and county line districts shall be eligible to receive such per capita apportionment based upon the number of scholastic pupils residing in the county of such equalization district, as shown by the latest official scholastic census of such district.  The county board of school trustees shall issue warrants against such equalization fund to the school district trustees on a per capita basis of scholastic pupils in each district;  provided that the county board may, from time to time, as the money is collected, issue warrants to the various school districts in proportion to the amount that each is entitled to receive on such per capita basis of scholastic pupils in the respective districts.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 49 - Education--Public › Chapter 12 - County Unit System › Article 2740g. County Unit School System in Counties Having Large Areas in Reforestation › Section 8. Operation and Effect of Act

Sec. 8. OPERATION AND EFFECT OF ACT.  This Act shall not have the effect of changing any duties imposed on or powers conferred on the trustees of any common or independent school districts situated in the counties covered by this Act, unless and except as expressly provided herein, it being the intention of this law that said respective boards of trustees shall continue to administer their lawful duties and powers as now authorized by law, but the equalization tax authorized shall be levied by the county board of school trustees and assessed and collected by the county tax assessor and collector.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 49 - Education--Public › Chapter 12 - County Unit System › Article 2740g. County Unit School System in Counties Having Large Areas in Reforestation › Section 9. Partial Invalidity, Repeals

Sec. 9. PARTIAL INVALIDITY, REPEALS.  In case any clause, sentence, paragraph, section or part of this Act shall be held unconstitutional or void, then, and in that event, it shall not affect any other clause, sentence, paragraph, section or part of this Act.  All laws, or parts of laws, both general and special, in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.
Acts 1935, 44th Leg., p. 284, ch. 103.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 49 - Education--Public › Chapter 12 - County Unit System › Article 2740h. Compensation of Members of Board of County School Trustees in Counties of 8,470 to 8,480 Population

In all counties having a total population of not more than thirty thousand, nine hundred and twenty-five (30,925) and not less than thirty thousand, nine hundred and fifteen (30,915), according to the last preceding Federal Census, and at the same time in those counties having a scholastic population of not more than eight thousand, four hundred and eighty (8,480) and not less than eight thousand, four hundred and seventy (8,470), according to the latest scholastic census as contained in the Public School Directory of the State Department of Education, the salary of a member of a county board of school trustees shall be Five Dollars ($5) per day, provided that not more than twelve (12) meetings shall be held in any fiscal year for which reimbursement is paid.
Acts 1939, 46th Leg., Spec.L., p. 690, Sec. 1.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 51 - Eleemosynary Institutions › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Article 3183b-1. Eminent Domain by Certain Nonprofit Charitable Corporations › Section 1.

Sec. 1.  Except as provided by this section, and notwithstanding any other law, any nonprofit corporation incorporated under the laws of this state for purely charitable purposes and which is directly affiliated or associated with a medical center having a medical school recognized by the Council on Medical Education and Hospitals of the American Medical Association as an integral part of its establishment, and which has for a purpose of its incorporation the provision or support of medical facilities or services for the use and benefit of the public, and which is situated in any county of this state having a population in excess of six hundred thousand (600,000) inhabitants according to the most recent Federal Census shall have the power of eminent domain and condemnation for the purposes set forth in Section 2 and Section 3 of this Act.  A charitable corporation described by this section may not exercise the power of eminent domain and condemnation to acquire a detached, single-family residential property or a multifamily residential property that contains eight or fewer dwelling units.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 51 - Eleemosynary Institutions › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Article 3183b-1. Eminent Domain by Certain Nonprofit Charitable Corporations › Section 2. Acquisition of Lands Adjacent to Medical Center for Construction, Maintenance and Operation of Facilities

Sec. 2. ACQUISITION OF LANDS ADJACENT TO MEDICAL CENTER FOR CONSTRUCTION, MAINTENANCE AND OPERATION OF FACILITIES.  Any charitable corporation as defined in Section 1 of this Act shall have the power of eminent domain and condemnation for the purpose of acquiring lands adjacent or contiguous (whether or not separated by public thoroughfares) to such medical center upon which are to be constructed, maintained, and operated as a part of the medical center, facilities dedicated to medical care, teaching, and research for the public welfare, including ancillary or service activities generally and customarily recognized as essential to such facilities in a medical center.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 51 - Eleemosynary Institutions › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Article 3183b-1. Eminent Domain by Certain Nonprofit Charitable Corporations › Section 3. Acquisition of Lands Adjacent to Medical Center for Purpose of Conveying or Leasing; Use of Lands

Sec. 3. ACQUISITION OF LANDS ADJACENT TO MEDICAL CENTER FOR PURPOSE OF CONVEYING OR LEASING;  USE OF LANDS.  Any charitable corporation as defined in Section 1 of this Act shall have the power of eminent domain and condemnation for the purpose of acquiring lands adjacent or contiguous (whether or not separated by public thoroughfares) to such medical center for the purpose of conveying or leasing such lands in the manner set forth in Section 4 of this Act to any nonprofit corporation, association, foundation or trust for the construction, maintenance, and operation of facilities to be a part of the medical center and dedicated to medical care, teaching, or research for the public welfare, including ancillary or service activities generally and customarily recognized as essential to such facilities in a medical center.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 51 - Eleemosynary Institutions › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Article 3183b-1. Eminent Domain by Certain Nonprofit Charitable Corporations › Section 4. Authority and Power to Control Property Acquired; Deeds of Conveyance or Lease

Sec. 4. AUTHORITY AND POWER TO CONTROL PROPERTY ACQUIRED;  DEEDS OF CONVEYANCE OR LEASE.  Any charitable corporation as defined in Section 1 of this Act in the exercise of the power of eminent domain conferred herein shall have full authority and power to control the property acquired for the purposes authorized herein, and shall have the authority to convey such property or to lease the same for a period of ninety-nine (99) years with an option to renew.  Any deed of conveyance or lease as provided in Section 3 of this Act shall set forth the defeasance or conditions under which the property is conveyed or leased and the fact that it is dedicated to medical care, teaching, or research for the public welfare.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 51 - Eleemosynary Institutions › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Article 3183b-1. Eminent Domain by Certain Nonprofit Charitable Corporations › Section 5. Reversion of Title to Original Owner

Sec. 5. REVERSION OF TITLE TO ORIGINAL OWNER.  It is expressly provided that if any property acquired under authority of this Act is not used for the purpose of medical care, teaching, or research or essential ancillary and service activities, but use for such purposes is abandoned, title to the property shall revert to the original owner from whom such property was acquired by condemnation pursuant to this Act, or to his heirs, devisees, or assigns.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 51 - Eleemosynary Institutions › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Article 3183b-1. Eminent Domain by Certain Nonprofit Charitable Corporations › Section 6.

Sec. 6.  (a)  Except as provided by Subsection (b) of this section, the power of eminent domain granted by this Act shall be exercised in accordance with Chapter 21, Property Code.
(b)  If a charitable corporation to which this Act applies seeks to acquire any real property by condemnation or seeks to purchase any real property that the corporation intends to use in a manner that would not comply with any deed restriction that applies to the property immediately before the purchase, before the charitable corporation initiates condemnation proceedings or records the deed conveying title to the property the charitable corporation shall, in addition to providing any other notice required by law, provide written notice by certified mail to the owner of record, as recorded in the real property records of the county, of each unit of real property:
(1)  that the charitable corporation seeks to acquire or purchase; or
(2)  that is not more than 200 feet from any boundary of any unit of real property the charitable corporation seeks to acquire or purchase.
Acts 1959, 56th Leg., p. 367, ch. 178, eff. Aug. 11, 1959.
Amended by:
Acts 2005, 79th Leg., 2nd C.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 7), Sec. 6, eff. November 18, 2005.
Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 81 (S.B. 18), Sec. 22, eff. September 1, 2011.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 58 - Express Companies › Article 3860. Declared Common Carriers

Each person, firm or corporation which shall do the business of an express company, upon railroads or otherwise, in this State, by the carrying of any kind of property, money, papers, packages or other things, are hereby declared to be common carriers, and shall receive, safely carry and promptly deliver at the express office nearest destination every such article as may be tendered to them, and in the carriage of which they are engaged.  No such company shall be compelled to carry any gunpowder, dynamite, kerosene, naptha, gasoline, matches or other dangerous or inflammable oils, acids or materials, except under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Railroad Commission.  No person, firm or corporation so engaged shall demand or receive for such services other than reasonable compensation.
Acts 1891, p. 48;  G.L. vol. 10, p. 50.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 58 - Express Companies › Article 3861. Regulation

The Railroad Commission of Texas shall have power, and it shall be its duty, to fix and establish reasonable and just rates of charges for each class or kind of property, money, papers, packages and other things, to be received and charged for by each express company, and, which, by the contract of carriage, are to be transported by such express company between points wholly within this State.  Such rates shall be made to apply to all such companies, and may be changed or modified by said Commission from time to time in such, manner as may become necessary.  Said Commission shall have the same power to make and prescribe such rules and regulations for the government and control of such express companies as is, or may be, conferred upon said Commission for the regulation of railroads.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 58 - Express Companies › Article 3862. Penalty for Overcharge

Every express company doing business in this State which shall demand or receive a greater compensation than that which may be prescribed and fixed by said Commission for the transportation within this State of any class or kind of property, money, papers, packages or things, shall be deemed guilty of extortion, and shall forfeit and pay to the State of Texas a sum not to exceed five hundred dollars for each offense.  If it shall appear that such violation was not wilful, said company shall have ten days to refund such overcharges or damages, in which case the penalty shall not be incurred.  The said Commission shall have authority and it shall be its duty to sue for the same in such manner as may be prescribed by law for like suits against railroad companies.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 58 - Express Companies › Article 3863. Powers of Commission

The said Commission shall have authority, and it shall be its duty to call upon such express companies for reports, and investigate their books in the same manner as may be prescribed by law for the regulation of railroad companies, and the said Commission shall have power and authority to institute suits, sue out such writs and process as may be applicable and authorized for the regulation of railroad companies.  All laws, rules and regulations made and prescribed for the government and control of railroads, when applicable, shall be of equal force and effect as to express companies.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 58 - Express Companies › Article 3864. General Office

Every incorporated express company doing business in this State shall keep a general office in this State at some place on the line of its transportation, in which it shall keep its charter, books, papers, accounts and contracts, or copies thereof, showing the value of its property of all kinds, its receipts and disbursements on account of business done in this State, and its indebtedness.  It shall make a full annual statement of all such matters as shown by its books to the Railroad Commission of Texas, and such additional statements as may be required by such Commission, which statements shall be certified to be correct and sworn to by the president and secretary, or general manager in Texas of such company.  Such company shall permit any member of the Railroad Commission of Texas or its authorized agent to examine at any time, any and all books, papers and contracts in its said office.
Acts 1897, p. 14;  G.L. vol. 10, p. 1068.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 58 - Express Companies › Article 3865. To Give Notice, Etc

Every express company doing business in this State shall give notice in writing to the Railroad Commission of the name, and official designation, of the person or persons, officer or officers charged with the management of its general office in this State, the location of its general office in this State, and shall from time to time give like notice in writing of any change in location of such general office, and of the person or persons, officer or officers in charge thereof.
Acts 1897, p. 14;  G.L. vol. 10, p. 1068.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 58 - Express Companies › Article 3866. Penalty

Failure to comply with any provision of this title shall subject the offending company and any officer, agent, or employe thereof, so offending, to a penalty of not less than one hundred nor more than five hundred dollars, to be recovered by suit therefor.  The Railroad Commission shall notify the Attorney General of any violation of any provision of this title which shall come to its knowledge.  In addition to said penalty, a failure to comply with any provision of this title shall be sufficient cause to cancel the permit of any express company so offending.
Acts 1897, p. 14;  G.L. vol. 10, p. 1068.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 66 - Free Passes, Franks and Transportation › Article 4005. Free Passes Prohibited

No steam or electric railway company, street railway company, interurban railway company or other chartered transportation company, express company, sleeping car company, telegraph company, telephone company or person or association of persons operating the same, nor any receiver or lessee thereof, nor any officer, agent or employee or receiver of any such company in this State shall knowingly haul or carry any property free of charge, or give or grant to any person, firm or association of persons a free pass, frank, privilege or substitute for pay or a subterfuge which is used or which is given to be used instead of the regular fare or rate of transportation or any authority or permit whatsoever to travel or to pass or convey or transport any person or property free, nor sell any transportation for anything except money, or for any greater or less rate than is charged all persons under the same conditions, over any railway or transportation lines or part of line in this State;  or shall knowingly permit any person to transmit any message free in this State;  or shall give any frank or right or privilege to transmit any message free in this State or property free of charge or for greater or less fare or rate than is charged other persons in this State for similar service, except as hereinafter provided in this title.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 66 - Free Passes, Franks and Transportation › Article 4005a. Free Pass Law

Any president, director, officer, employé or agent of any steam or electric railway company, street railway company, interurban railway company, or other chartered transportation company, express company, sleeping car company, telegraph or telephone company, who shall sell any transportation for anything except money or knowingly give, grant, issue, or cause to be issued, a free pass, a frank, a privilege, or any substitute for, or in lieu thereof, for the transportation of any person, article or thing, or the sending or transmitting any messages over wire or other means of transmitting messages in this State, shall be fined not less than five hundred nor more than two thousand dollars, and may, in addition thereto, in the discretion of the jury, be confined in the penitentiary not less than six months nor more than two years.
Acts 1907, p. 93.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 66 - Free Passes, Franks and Transportation › Article 4006a. Exceptions

The preceding article shall not apply in cases where the laws of this State provide that such companies as are referred to in said article, or the receivers or lessees thereof, or persons operating the same, or the officers, agents or employés thereof, may grant free passes, franks, privileges, or substitutes for pay to or for the persons, articles or things referred to and mentioned in said laws and said article.
Acts 1907, p. 94.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 66 - Free Passes, Franks and Transportation › Article 4006b. Using Another's Pass

If any person shall present, or offer to use, in his own behalf, any permit or frank whatever, to travel, pass or to convey any person or property or message which has been issued to any other person, or shall, knowing that he is not entitled under the law, apply to any railway, express, telegraph or telephone company, officer, agent, lessee or receiver thereof, for any free pass, frank, privilege or a substitute for pay given or to be used instead of the regular fare or rate for transportation, or for any other consideration, except money, he shall be confined in jail not less than thirty days and not more than twelve months, and be fined not less than one hundred nor more than one thousand dollars.
Acts 1907, p. 95.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 66 - Free Passes, Franks and Transportation › Article 4006-A. Free Transportation to Indian War Veterans

Article 4005 shall not be held to prevent any railway company or other companies mentioned therein from granting free transportation, franks, privileges, or passes to Indian War Veterans, subject to the same limitations as apply to other Veterans provided in Article 4006.
Acts 1931, 42nd Leg., p. 335, ch. 202, Sec. 1.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 66 - Free Passes, Franks and Transportation › Article 4007. Definitions

The word "employee" as used in this title shall be held to include all officers, agents or employees, actually employed and engaged in the service of such corporation, company, association of persons, including its officers, bona fide ticket and freight agents, physicians, surgeons and general attorneys, and attorneys who appear in court to try cases and receive a reasonable annual salary therefor.  The word "family" as used in this title shall include the wife, minor children and dependents of any such employé or person.  The words "minister of religion" shall be construed to mean only those whose principal occupation is that of a minister of religion, priest or rabbi.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 66 - Free Passes, Franks and Transportation › Article 4008. Special Rates

Nothing in this title shall be held to prevent any corporation, association or person mentioned in the first article of this title from granting transportation at the rate of one cent per mile to veterans mentioned in the preceding article, or their wives or widows;  honorably discharged soldiers, sailors, marines and Red Cross nurses of the late world war to or from the annual convention, Department of Texas American Legion;  any minister of religion for intrastate trips, or from granting to ministers of religion reduced rates of one-half the regular fare, or to prohibit the making of special rates for special occasions or under special conditions, provided authority therefor shall first be obtained from the Railroad Commission of Texas;  or to prohibit transportation between points wholly within this State at the reduced rate of one cent per mile while traveling on official business connected with their respective offices, the following named peace officers, to wit:  Adjutant General of this State;  State rangers;  the sheriff of any county, his deputies to be designated by him;  constables;  chiefs of police and assistant chiefs and captains;  city marshals, chief of the detectives of any county or city, and assistant detectives.
Acts 1907, p. 94;  Acts 1911, p. 151;  Acts 1921, pp. 171, 191, 214;  Acts 1923, p. 175;  Acts 2nd C.S. 1923, p. 100.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 66 - Free Passes, Franks and Transportation › Article 4008a. Aged, Blind or Disabled Persons; Special Rates

Transportation companies which operate in the municipalities of this state may set special reduced rates or fares for persons who are 60 years of age or older or who are blind or disabled.
Acts 1971, 62nd Leg., p. 88, ch. 50, Sec. 1, eff. April 6, 1971.  Amended by Acts 1973, 63rd Leg., p. 758, ch. 333, Sec. 1, eff. June 12, 1973.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 66 - Free Passes, Franks and Transportation › Article 4008b. Street Railways

All persons or corporations owning or operating street railways or motor buses in or upon the public streets of any city of not less than twenty thousand inhabitants are required:
1. To carry children of the age of twelve years or less for one-half the fare regularly collected for the transportation of adults.
2. To sell or provide for the sale of tickets in lots of twenty, each good for one trip over the line or lines owned or operated by such person or corporation, for one-half the regular fare collected for the transportation of adults, to students in actual attendance upon any academic, public or private school of grades not higher than the grades of the public high schools situated within, or adjacent to the town or city in which such railway is located.  Such tickets are required to be sold only upon the presentation by the student desiring to purchase them of the written certificate of the principal of the school which he attends showing that such student is in regular attendance upon such school and is within the grades herein provided.  Such tickets are not required to be sold to such students and shall not be used except during the months when such schools are in actual session and such students shall be transported at half fare only when they present such tickets.
3. To transport, free of charge, children of the age of five years or less when attended by a passenger of above said age.
4. To accord to all passengers referred to in this Article the same rights as to the use of transfers issued by their own or other lines as are or may be accorded to passengers paying full fare.
Any such person or any officer or employee of any such corporation or other person who knowingly violates any provision of this Article, or any person who misrepresents the age or the grade of any person for the purpose of securing the reduced fare herein provided for, shall be fined not less than Twenty-five nor more than One Hundred Dollars.
Acts 1903, p. 132.  Amended by Acts 1931, 42nd Leg., p. 828, ch. 343, Sec. 1.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 66 - Free Passes, Franks and Transportation › Article 4009. Free Transportation

Nothing in this title shall be construed to prohibit any express company from hauling or carrying free of charge any package or property of its actual bona fide officers, attorneys, agents and employees while in the service of such express company, nor to prevent any article being sent free to any orphan home or other charitable institution, nor to prohibit any telegraph or telephone company from transmitting free of charge any message of its bona fide officers, attorneys, agents or employees and their families while in the actual employment of such company or its receiver or lessee;  provided the actual bona fide officers and employees upon annual salaries of railway telephone companies and telegraph companies are hereby permitted to exchange frank privileges and free transportation over their respective lines of railway and telegraph or telephone.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 66 - Free Passes, Franks and Transportation › Article 4010. Advertising

Nothing in this title shall be construed to prevent any of the parties named in the first article hereof, publishers, editors or proprietors of newspapers or magazines, from making an exchange of mileage for advertising space in such newspaper or magazine, provided the contract between the railway companies and publishers, editors or proprietors of such newspapers or magazines shall be at the same rate as is charged the public generally for like service, providing that such contract shall be in writing and shall not be operative until approved by the Railroad Commission of this State, and filed in the office of such Commission, subject at all times to a reasonable public inspection.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 66 - Free Passes, Franks and Transportation › Article 4011. Discrimination as to Persons

If any corporation, company, association, or person mentioned in Article 4005 shall grant to any sheriff, constable, or marshal a free pass over its lines of railroad, it shall issue like free transportation to each and every sheriff, constable, or marshal who may make application therefor.
Amended by Acts 1927, 40th Leg., 1st C.S., p. 239, ch. 87, Sec. 1.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 66 - Free Passes, Franks and Transportation › Article 4012. Evidence of Authority

Any veteran of any of the wars mentioned in this title, their wives, widows or members of their families, and any minister of religion, or any fireman, sister of charity or member of any religious society of like character, who desires to receive the benefits of free or reduced transportation as mentioned in this title shall present to the president, manager, officer, or person authorized to issue such transportation satisfactory evidence that he or she is entitled thereto, as herein provided.  The officers entitled to the benefits of this law shall, when presenting themselves to the agent of any such railway or interurban railway company for the purchase of a ticket or to pay his fare, exhibit to such agent in case of the Adjutant General and State Rangers a certificate of the Secretary of State under the state seal, in case of sheriffs and constables and their deputies a certificate under seal of the county judge of the county where they hold office and in case of officers of a city or town a certificate under seal of the mayor of such city or town stating that such person is entitled to the reduced fare herein provided for.  Sheriffs and constables shall designate in writing the two deputies entitled to the reduced rates herein provided for.  If the sheriff or constable has designated two deputies who are entitled to such reduced rates, then no deputy of such sheriff or constable shall be entitled to free transportation under the provisions of the pass laws of this State.
Acts 1921, p. 171.
Amended by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 300, Sec. 17, eff. Aug. 30, 1993.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 66 - Free Passes, Franks and Transportation › Article 4013. Discrimination by Device

No corporation, company or person mentioned in the first article of this title shall directly or indirectly, by any special rate, rebate, drawback, or other device, demand, exchange, collect or receive from any person, firm, association or corporation a greater or less or different compensation for any service rendered or to be rendered, in the transportation of passengers, properties or messages, than it or he charges, demands, collects or receives from any other corporation, person, firm or association of persons doing business in this State for a like service under substantially similar circumstances and conditions except as is provided in this title, nor shall grant any free transportation or franking privilege to any corporation or person except as provided in this title.
Acts 1907, p. 96.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 66 - Free Passes, Franks and Transportation › Article 4013a. Discrimination by Device

No steam or electric railway company, street railway company, interurban railway company, or other chartered transportation company, express company, sleeping car company, telegraph or telephone company, shall directly or indirectly, by any special rate, rebate, drawback, or other device or exchange, demand, charge or collect or receive from any person, firm, association of persons or corporation a greater or less or different compensation for any service rendered, or to be rendered, in the transportation of passengers, property or messages, than it charges, demands, collects or receives from any other person, firm, association of persons or corporation for doing for him, them or it, a like service, if the transportation or transmission is a like kind of traffic or service under substantially similar circumstances and conditions.
Acts 1907, p. 96.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 66 - Free Passes, Franks and Transportation › Article 4014. Reports, Etc

Each corporation, company or persons subject to the provisions of this title shall, as and when requested by the Railroad Commission of Texas, furnish said Commission with any and all information which may at any time be requested by said Commission relating to free transportation or right thereto which has been given to travel, or to have property or messages transported or transmitted, free over the lines of any such corporation, company or person, and if requested by said Commission to give the name and address of such person or persons to whom said rights have been granted, either free or at a reduced rate;  any corporation, company or person, who shall fail or refuse to comply with the request of the Railroad Commission of Texas, under the provisions of this Act, shall, for each such failure and refusal, be subject to a penalty not exceeding One Thousand ($1,000.00) Dollars, to recover which suit shall be brought by the Attorney General of Texas under the direction of the Railroad Commission;  provided, however, that each such corporation, company or person, who complies with the provisions of this Act, from and after January 1, 1931, shall not be required to furnish the reports provided for under Article 4014, Revised Civil Statutes of 1925, which is hereby amended.
Amended by Acts 1931, 42nd Leg., p. 261, ch. 156, Sec. 1.