Class of Vehicle

- all or any of the types of vehicles, machines, tractors, trailers, or semitrailers, or any combination thereof, propelled or drawn by mechanical power and used on a highway. A vehicle class includes, but is not limited to:

a semitrailer
special mobile equipment
a trailer
a truck.

Truck -

a motor vehicle with three or more axles, designed, used, or maintained primarily to transport property.

Truck Tractor

- a motor vehicle designed and used primarily to draw another vehicle, but not constructed to carry a load other than a part of the weight of the other vehicle and its load.

Controlled Access Facility

- as defined in Transportation Code , a designated state highway to or from which access is denied or controlled, in whole or in part, from or to adjoining real property or an intersecting public or private way, without regard to whether the designated state highway is located in or outside a local jurisdiction as defined below.

Freeway

- a public roadway that:

is in the designated state highway system
is designated a controlled access facility
has a minimum of three travel lanes, excluding access or frontage roads, in each direction of traffic that may be part of a single roadway or may be separate roadways that are constructed as an upper and lower deck.

Local Jurisdiction

- a home-rule, general‑law, or special‑law municipality incorporated under the laws of the State of Texas or any of the State’s 254 counties.

Order

- a resolution or order of a county commissioner’s court or municipal ordinance.

Transcript

- a verbatim written record of a meeting required under this subchapter as prepared and certified by a court reporter or by an employee of a local jurisdiction and certified by an appropriate official of a local jurisdiction.