Sec. 463.056. OPERATION OF PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM. (a) An authority may: (1) acquire, construct, develop, plan, own, operate, and maintain a public transportation system in the territory of the authority, including in the territory of a political subdivision; (2) contract with a municipality, county, or other political subdivision for the authority to provide public transportation services outside the authority; and (3) lease all or a part of the public transportation system to, or contract for the operation of all or a part of the public transportation system by, an operator. (b) An authority, as the authority determines advisable, shall determine routes. (c) The executive committee may submit a referendum for the approval of a power granted by Subsection (a) or (b). (d) A private operator who contracts with an authority under this chapter is not a public entity for purposes of any law of this state except that an independent contractor of the authority that performs a function of the authority is liable for damages only to the extent that the authority would be liable if the authority itself were performing the function.
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