{"id":858,"date":"2017-09-14T21:12:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T21:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2017\/09\/14\/upcoming-texas-attorney-general-question-private-toll-companies-fees\/"},"modified":"2017-09-14T21:12:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T21:12:00","slug":"upcoming-texas-attorney-general-question-private-toll-companies-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/upcoming-texas-attorney-general-question-private-toll-companies-fees\/","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming Texas Attorney General Question: Private Toll Companies &#038; Fees."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chairman Joe Pickett wants the Texas Attorney General to clarify to what extent are the limitations of fee assessments placed upon TXDOT also placed upon private entities that operate tolls.<\/p>\n<p>Pickett&#8217;s exact question:\u00a0<\/p>\n<div title=\"Page 1\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><em>To <\/em><em>what extent are the provisions (?(Section 228.0547(b), Transportation Code, as added by <\/em><em>S.B. <\/em><em>312, Acts of tne 85th Legislature, Regular Session, 2017, &#8221;powers and duties&#8221; <\/em><em>o f <\/em><em>the Texas Department <\/em><em>o f <\/em><em>Transportation that apply under Section 228. <\/em><em>059, <\/em><em>Transportation Code, to an entity operating a toll lane pursuant to Section 228.007(b), Transportation Code?\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What stands out about this opinion request? It was also signed by non-chairmen: Dale, Minjarez &amp; Oliverson<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasattorneygeneral.gov\/opinions\/opinions\/51paxton\/rq\/2017\/pdf\/RQ0178KP.pdf?utm_content=&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_name=&amp;utm_source=govdelivery&amp;utm_term=\">RQ-0178-KP<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chairman Joe Pickett wants the Texas Attorney General to clarify to what extent are the limitations of fee assessments placed upon TXDOT also placed upon private entities that operate tolls.<\/p>\n<p>Pickett&#8217;s exact question:\u00a0<\/p>\n<div title=\"Page 1\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><em>To <\/em><em>what extent are the provisions (?(Section 228.0547(b), Transportation Code, as added by <\/em><em>S.B. <\/em><em>312, Acts of tne 85th Legislature, Regular Session, 2017, &#8221;powers and duties&#8221; <\/em><em>o f <\/em><em>the Texas Department <\/em><em>o f <\/em><em>Transportation that apply under Section 228. <\/em><em>059, <\/em><em>Transportation Code,\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-attorney-general","category-tollroad","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858","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=858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}