By Krusee H.B. No. 2102
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the authority of certain cities to adopt and release
1-3 extraterritorial jurisdiction.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. New sections 42.024, 42.025 and 42.026 of the
1-6 Local Government Code are added to read as follows:
1-7 Section 42.024. Definitions.
1-8 (1) "Adopting city" means a home-rule municipality, as
1-9 defined in Section 5.004 of the Local Government Code, which has
1-10 less than 7,500 population; owns and operates a central water and
1-11 sewer system; has territory in two counties, each of which is
1-12 within the jurisdiction of a different river authority; and
1-13 purchases and appropriates raw water for its water utility by
1-14 authority of a trans-basin diversion permit from only one of the
1-15 two river authorities into which its territory extends.
1-16 (2) "Releasing city" means a home-rule municipality as
1-17 defined by section 5.004 of the Local Government Code which has a
1-18 population greater than 450,000 but less than 550,000; owns and
1-19 operates a central water and sewer system; has territory in three
1-20 counties, each of which is within the jurisdiction of a different
1-21 river authority; and owns an electric utility which does not serve
1-22 all of the territory within its city limits and extraterritorial
1-23 jurisdiction.
2-1 Section 42.025. Applicability.
2-2 The governing body of an adopting city, as defined in section
2-3 1(1) of this act, may, by resolution, adopt an extraterritorial
2-4 jurisdiction comprised of land within the extraterritorial
2-5 jurisdiction of a releasing city, as defined in Section 1(2) of
2-6 this act, when the following conditions exist:
2-7 (1) the land to be adopted is not being served by the
2-8 releasing city's water, sewer and electric utility, and the
2-9 releasing city has not funded a Capital Improvement Plan in place
2-10 for at least five consecutive years which would finance the
2-11 installation of water and sewer lines necessary to serve the area;
2-12 (2) the land to be adopted is adjacent to territory of the
2-13 adopting city, and that city has adopted a Service Plan for
2-14 provision of water and sewer to the area;
2-15 (3) the land to be adopted lies wholly within only one of
2-16 the counties in which both of the cities have territory; and
2-17 (4) the land to be adopted lies within one or more school
2-18 districts, each of which has the majority of its area outside of
2-19 the territory of the releasing city.
2-20 Section 42.026. Resolutions.
2-21 The governing body of a releasing city, as defined in Section
2-22 1(2) of this act, shall have released the land which meets the
2-23 conditions described in Section 2 of this act when the adopting
2-24 city, as defined in Section 1(1) of this act, has passed a
2-25 conforming resolution, and presented it to the governing body of
3-1 the releasing city.
3-2 SECTION 2. This act takes effect September 1, 1993.
3-3 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
3-4 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-5 emergency and an imperative public necessity such that the
3-6 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-7 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.