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<p></p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{DISPLAYTITLE:Article XVI, Section 24 of the Texas Constitution}}{{Template:Texas Constitution|text=Adopted February 15, 1876:<br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;The Legislature shall make provision for laying out and working public roads, for the building of bridges, and for utilizing fines, forfeitures, and convict labor to all these purposes.&#039;&#039;&#039;<br /> <br /> |editor=<br /> <br /> This section has been criticized as unnecessary.<br /> <br /> |other=<br /> <br /> None.<br /> <br /> |recent=<br /> <br /> None.<br /> <br /> |historic=<br /> <br /> * &#039;&#039;Robbins v. Limestone County&#039;&#039;, 268 S.W. 915, [https://texaslegalguide.com/images/Vol_268_SWR_915.pdf#page=4 918] (Tex. 1925) (&quot;The establishment of public highways being primarily a function of government belonging to the state, the right to establish them resides primarily in the Legislature, and, in the absence of constitutional restrictions, the Legislature may exercise that right direct or delegate it to a political subdivision of the state, or to such other agency or instrumentality, general or local in its scope, as it may determine. The exercise of this right by a political subdivision of the state . . . is founded upon statutory authority therefor. The Legislature may exercise possession of public roads and control over them, by and through such agencies as it may designate.&quot;)<br /> <br /> }}<br /> <br /> [[Category:TxCon ArtXVI Sec]]</div>

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