{"id":1217,"date":"2019-02-22T23:27:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T23:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2019\/02\/22\/tx-attorney-general-opinion-county-roads-v-public-roads\/"},"modified":"2019-02-22T23:27:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T23:27:00","slug":"tx-attorney-general-opinion-county-roads-v-public-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/tx-attorney-general-opinion-county-roads-v-public-roads\/","title":{"rendered":"TX Attorney General Opinion. County Roads v. Public Roads."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www2.texasattorneygeneral.gov\/opinions\/opinions\/51paxton\/op\/2019\/KP-0240.pdf?utm_content=&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_name=&amp;utm_source=govdelivery&amp;utm_term=\">KP-0240<\/a>\u00a0is about whether a pulic road with a gate on on it, can the county open the gate, effectively treating the road as a county road.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What did the Attorney General Opinion say about what the county can or cannot do with the gate on the public road? Until the road is a county road, or the county is party ot a court order, the county cnanot open the gate<\/p>\n<p>What do I need to know about public roads and county roads from a regulatory\/legislative approach?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Texas statutes use &#8220;county road&#8221; and &#8220;public road&#8221; to mean the same thing, but they don&#8217;t. Helpful, right?<\/li>\n<li>TX Supreme Court says a county can convert a road to a county road \u00a0in 3 ways:\n<ul>\n<li>long use<\/li>\n<li>approval by the commissioners court<\/li>\n<li>assent by the land owner<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>KP-0075 says all county roads are public roads but not all \u00a0public roads are county roads because it requires county commissioner court approval<\/li>\n<li>Small counties, under 50,000m can acquire \u00a0private road &#8220;only by purchase, condemnation, express dedication, or a court&#8217;s final judgment of adverse possession in favor of the county.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What does this mean? look for a code re-write.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www2.texasattorneygeneral.gov\/opinions\/opinions\/51paxton\/op\/2019\/KP-0240.pdf?utm_content=&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_name=&amp;utm_source=govdelivery&amp;utm_term=\">KP-0240<\/a>\u00a0is about whether a pulic road with a gate on on it, can the county open the gate, effectively treating the road as a county road.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What did the Attorney General Opinion say about what the county can or cannot do with the gate on the public road? Until the road is a county road, or the county is party ot a court order, the county cnanot open the gate<\/p>\n<p>What do I need to know about public roads and county roads from a regulatory\/legislative approach?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Texas statutes use &#8220;county road&#8221; and\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,22,19,10,30,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2019-issue","category-attorney-general","category-legal-trend","category-legislative-trend","category-local-government","category-roads","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}