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TITLE 43TRANSPORTATION
PART 1TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
CHAPTER 12PUBLIC DONATION AND PARTICIPATION PROGRAM
SUBCHAPTER APUBLIC PARTICIPATION PROGRAMS
RULE §12.5Landscape Cost Sharing Program

    (H) The department's employees shall not accept any benefits, gifts, or other thing reasonably regarded as economic gain or advantage.

  (3) The agreement shall include the funding arrangement and payment schedule.

(g) General limiting conditions and eligibility. Because of administrative, legislative, and financial constraints, the Program shall be subject to the following terms.

  (1) The department will consider such factors as width of right-of-way, geometrics, congestion, sight-distance, and maintenance requirements in determining the acceptability and/or amount of departmental participation in any proposed project.

  (2) The department will not erect or replace a sign announcing participation in the Program, unless the local government or donor pays the cost of manufacturing and erecting the sign. The cost of manufacturing and erecting the sign will not be included as a portion of the local government's or donor's contribution toward the project.

  (3) Work under the Program shall not be combined with any other landscape-related programs sponsored by the department.

  (4) If any actions are determined to be contrary to any legislative restrictions or any restrictions on the use of appropriated funds for political activities, the department shall have the right to take any and all necessary remedial actions, including, but not limited to, the removal of the signs displaying the local governmental entity's or donor's name.

(h) Modification/termination of agreement. The agreement as cited in subsection (f) of this section may be modified in any manner at the sole discretion of the department.


Source Note: The provisions of this §12.5 adopted to be effective December 8, 2011, 36 TexReg 8243; amended to be effective April 16, 2014, 39 TexReg 2958

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