The following words and terms, when used in this subchapter,
shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates
otherwise.
(1) Commission--The Texas Transportation Commission.
(2) Committee--A committee established under this subchapter.
(3) Comprehensive development agreement--An agreement
with a private entity authorized under Transportation Code, Chapter
223, Subchapter E that, at a minimum, provides for the design and
construction, reconstruction, extension, expansion, or improvement
of a toll project and may also provide for the financing, acquisition,
maintenance, or operation of a toll project.
(4) Concession agreement--A comprehensive development
agreement under which a private entity agrees to develop, finance,
and construct a toll project, and to assume operation or maintenance
responsibilities for a toll project, in exchange for rights to revenue
of the project.
(5) Department--The Texas Department of Transportation.
(6) Executive director--The executive director of the
department or the executive director's designee.
(7) Local funds--Funds of a city or county, any other
funds paid by a city or county to meet local participation requirements,
and money deposited in a subaccount created under Transportation Code, §228.012.
(8) Local toll project entity--Has the meaning assigned
by Transportation Code, §373.001.
(9) Metropolitan planning organization--The organization
or policy board of an organization created and designated under 23
U.S.C. §134 and 49 U.S.C. §5303, as amended, to make transportation
planning decisions for a metropolitan planning area in which a toll
project is located and to carry out the metropolitan transportation
planning process.
(10) Toll project--Has the meaning assigned by Transportation
Code, §201.001.
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