By Stiles H.B. No. 811
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to annexation by general law municipalities.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 43.033(a), Local Government Code, is
1-5 amended to read as follows:
1-6 (a) A general-law municipality may annex adjacent territory
1-7 without the consent of any of the residents or voters of the area
1-8 and without the consent of any of the owners of land in the area
1-9 provided that the following conditions are met:
1-10 (1) the municipality has a population of 1,000 or more
1-11 and is not eligible to adopt a home-rule charter;
1-12 (2) the procedural rules prescribed by this chapter
1-13 are met;
1-14 (3) the municipality must be providing the area with
1-15 water or <and> sewer service;
1-16 (4) the area does not include unoccupied territory in
1-17 excess of one acre for each service address for water and sewer
1-18 service;
1-19 (5) the service plan requires that police and fire
1-20 protection at a level consistent with protection provided within
1-21 the municipality must be provided to the area within 10 days after
1-22 the effective date of the annexation; and
1-23 (6) the municipality and the affected landowners have
2-1 not entered an agreement to not annex the area for a certain time
2-2 period.
2-3 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-4 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-5 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-6 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-7 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.