By: Cain S.B. No. 685
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to annexation by general-law municipalities.
1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-3 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 43.033, Local Government
1-4 Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-5 (a) A general-law municipality may annex adjacent territory
1-6 without the consent of any of the residents or voters of the area
1-7 and without the consent of any of the owners of land in the area
1-8 provided that the following conditions are met:
1-9 (1) the municipality has a population of 1,000 or more
1-10 and is not eligible to adopt a home-rule charter;
1-11 (2) the procedural rules prescribed by this chapter
1-12 are met;
1-13 (3) the municipality must be providing the area with
1-14 water or sewer service;
1-15 (4) the area does not include unoccupied territory in
1-16 excess of one acre for each service address for water or <and>
1-17 sewer service;
1-18 (5) the service plan requires that police and fire
1-19 protection at a level consistent with protection provided within
1-20 the municipality must be provided to the area within 10 days after
1-21 the effective date of the annexation; and
1-22 (6) the municipality and the affected landowners have
1-23 not entered an agreement to not annex the area for a certain time
2-1 period.
2-2 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-3 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-4 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-5 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-6 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-7 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-8 passage, and it is so enacted.