DUTY OF DEPARTMENT
Applied in 7 court decisions — leading case Sipes v. Texas Department of Transportation (1997)
Most recently applied in The State of Texas and the Texas Department of Transportation v. Nico-Wf1, L.L.C. (November 2012)
Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(a) The department has exclusive and direct control of all improvement of the state highway system.
(b) The department shall prepare and pay for surveys, plans, specifications, and estimates for all construction and improvement of the state highway system.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.