| (a) The Commission established the Texas Heritage Trails
Program and, with the Texas Department of Transportation's cooperation,
adopted the state's ten Texas Travel Trails to divide Texas into ten
Heritage Trail Regions (Texas Brazos Trail Region, Texas Forest Trail
Region, Texas Forts Trail Region, Texas Hill Country Trail Region,
Texas Independence Trail Region, Texas Lakes Trail Region, Texas Mountain
Trail Region, Texas Pecos Trail Region, Texas Plains Trail Region,
and Texas Tropical Trail Region).
(b) The THTP is a program of the Commission and permission
to participate in the program is granted to regional organizations
by action of the Commission and may be revoked by the Commission in
its sole discretion at any time.
(c) The Commission may approve a regional organization
to represent and operate under the name of their respective region
as determined by the Commission. No more than one nonprofit entity
shall be approved for any one region; however, the Commission may
approve a nonprofit entity to represent more than one region. The
entity must retain its Texas and Internal Revenue Service nonprofit
status in good standing for the duration of program participation.
(d) The Commission shall establish and maintain heritage
tourism principles, vision, mission, values, goals, and strategies
for the purposes of this chapter that regional organizations participating
in the program shall follow.
(e) The Commission may enter into a Contract with one
or more participating regional organizations to provide financial
assistance per §30.5(a) of this chapter (relating to Texas Heritage
Trail Program Operations). Each contract must clearly establish:
(1) the role of the nonprofit organization in promoting
heritage tourism;
(2) the nature of the relationship between the commission
and the nonprofit organization;
(3) the performance expectations for the nonprofit
organization;
(4) requirements and expectations regarding the nonprofit
organization's employees;
(5) the commission's expectations regarding ownership
of any literature, media, or other products developed or produced
by the nonprofit organization to promote heritage tourism during the
course of the contract;
(6) the commission's long-term goals for the program
and the nonprofit organization's role in meeting those goals;
(7) a system for evaluating the nonprofit organization's
overall performance, including the organization's effectiveness in
meeting the performance expectations described by subsection (d) of
this section; and
(8) the types of support, other than financial support,
the commission will provide to the nonprofit organization to assist
in the implementation and administration of the Texas Heritage Trails
Program.
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