{"id":977,"date":"2018-03-05T18:21:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T18:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2018\/03\/05\/tx-attorney-general-opinion-the-loophole-on-tollroads-administrative-fee-cap-the-legislative-fix\/"},"modified":"2018-03-05T18:21:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T18:21:00","slug":"tx-attorney-general-opinion-the-loophole-on-tollroads-administrative-fee-cap-the-legislative-fix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/tx-attorney-general-opinion-the-loophole-on-tollroads-administrative-fee-cap-the-legislative-fix\/","title":{"rendered":"TX Attorney General Opinion. THE LOOPHOLE on Tollroads. Administrative Fee Cap. The Legislative Fix."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOOPHOLES in the Attorney General Cap on administrative fees: toll roads that are operated by non-TXDOT entities, or that have contracts awarded for operation by non-TXDOT entities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s an example of a non-TXDOT tollroad? <\/strong>Tollraods operated by\u00a0Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority<\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s the legislative fix?<\/strong>\u00a0Adding the administrative cap to\u00a0Texas Transportation Code, Section 370 which govrns tollroads operated by regional mobility authorities.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mystatesman.com\/news\/transportation\/wear-why-toll-fees-remain-uncapped-some-central-texas-roads\/fHTrSnupSldCZOzwXv7MhI\/\">Statesman |\u00a0Wear: Why toll fees remain uncapped on some Central Texas roads<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Refreshing our recollection, informed:intel:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasattorneygeneral.gov\/opinions\/opinions\/51paxton\/op\/2018\/kp0184.pdf?utm_content=&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_name=&amp;utm_source=govdelivery&amp;utm_term=\">Texas Attorney General Opinion KP-0184<\/a>\u00a0establishes that 2017&#8217;s SB 312 caps administrative fees of private toll operators too.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, yes it does and here is why:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Operators get to operate a toll lane only by order of TXDOT<\/li>\n<li>TEX. TRANSP. CODE \u00a7 228.007(a) \u00a0says the toll operation agreements charge a toll &#8220;under this section&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;This section\u00a0228.007(b)(2) gives the toll operator the same duties as TXDOT which means the limits on administrative fees applies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOOPHOLES in the Attorney General Cap on administrative fees: toll roads that are operated by non-TXDOT entities, or that have contracts awarded for operation by non-TXDOT entities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s an example of a non-TXDOT tollroad? <\/strong>Tollraods operated by\u00a0Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority<\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s the legislative fix?<\/strong>\u00a0Adding the administrative cap to\u00a0Texas Transportation Code, Section 370 which govrns tollroads operated by regional mobility authorities.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mystatesman.com\/news\/transportation\/wear-why-toll-fees-remain-uncapped-some-central-texas-roads\/fHTrSnupSldCZOzwXv7MhI\/\">Statesman |\u00a0Wear: Why toll fees remain\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,51,22,27,10,52,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-issue","category-2019-issue","category-attorney-general","category-contracting","category-legislative-trend","category-procurement","category-tollroad","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977","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=977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}