A municipality that desires to undertake the access permitting process on highways on the state highway system within their jurisdiction shall submit in writing its proposed permitting procedures and an implementation date to TxDOT. If TxDOT determines that the proposed procedures adequately address the engineering and design of access locations as described in this manual in Chapter 3, Section 1, Engineering Access Locations, TxDOT will transfer to the municipality the access permitting function within the municipality's jurisdiction. The municipality will then issue the access permits.

The municipality shall submit to the Department a copy of each approved access permit on the state highway system within ten working days of its approval and prior to initiation of any access construction on the state highway system. The contractor installing the access connection shall have a copy of the permit at the site.

A municipality may also choose to adopt the Department's guidelines as their own and retain access connection location permit authority. Access location permit authority may be transferred to the municipality by letter from the TxDOT District Engineer and then, at the next opportunity, incorporated into the municipal maintenance agreement between TxDOT and the participating authority. For example, if a city actively applies its subdivision regulations within its extraterritorial jurisdiction (ETJ), the municipal maintenance agreement may also extend the municipality's access permitting authority to the ETJ rather than the corporate limits.