Texas Administrative Code
Title 43 - TRANSPORTATION
Part 1 - TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Chapter 25 - TRAFFIC OPERATIONS
Subchapter A - GENERAL
Section 25.9 - Memorial Designated Highways and Historical Routes
Current through Reg. 50, No. 13; March 28, 2025
(a) Purpose. Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 225, provides for the memorial designation of roadways on the state highway system. Subchapter A of that chapter authorizes local governmental units, if approved by the department, to assign a memorial designation to a part of the state highway system, and authorizes a county historical commission to apply to the Texas Historical Commission and the department for the marking with the historical designation of a farm-to-market or ranch road that follows a historical route. This section prescribes the policies and procedures by which memorial highways and historical routes are designated.
(b) Highways designated as memorial highways in the statute. The department will design, construct, or erect a marker for a memorial highway designated by statute only if all costs of designing, constructing, and erecting the marker have been donated to the department.
(c) Transportation Commission. Texas Transportation Code, § 225.001, prohibits the Texas Transportation Commission from naming any road, bridge, street, or highway on the state highway system other than by designating it with the regular highway number.
(d) Local governments. Local governmental units, such as a city or county, may submit a request to the department to assign a memorial designation to any part or parts of the state highway system within the local government's jurisdiction.
(e) Memorial designation markers. The department will design, construct, or erect a memorial designation marker only if all costs for the marker have been donated to the department.
(f) Historical routes.
(g) Official highway name, number, and postal address. A memorial designation or marker placed under this section does not replace the official name, highway number, or the postal address of the highway.