State Toll Exemption Policy

In the interest of public safety, law enforcement, and emergency vehicles—as defined in Transportation Code, §541.201—are toll-exempt on TxDOT toll roads. Those vehicles include the following:

• Fire department and police vehicles, public or private ambulances, municipal department or public service corporation emergency vehicles, private vehicles of volunteer firefighters, or certified EMS employees or volunteers when responding to an emergency.
• Industrial emergency response vehicles when responding to an emergency.
• Vehicles of blood or tissue banks when making deliveries of blood, drugs, medicines or organs.

TxDOT contractors working on the construction, improvement, maintenance or operation
of the toll project or system being traveled are also toll-exempt.

Marked, recognizable military vehicles are toll-exempt, except on the Central Texas Turnpike System where such vehicles may receive free passage only during time of war or other emergency.

Any vehicle in the time of a declared emergency or natural disaster will also be toll-exempt to facilitate mass evacuations.

The revised policy allows first responders expedited travel in times of disasters and emergencies.

For more information regarding TxDOT’s toll exemption policies, see Texas Transportation Commission Minute Order 110911, dated April 26, 2007. Toll exemption policies may differ on roads managed by other toll agencies.