By: Barrientos S.B. No. 1271 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the adjustment of the extraterritorial jurisdiction 1-2 boundary between certain cities. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Chapter 42.903, Local Government Code, is amended 1-5 by adding Subsections (f) and (g) to read as follows: 1-6 (f) If a portion of a tract of land is located in the 1-7 extraterritorial jurisdiction of a municipality that has adopted an 1-8 ordinance or resolution under Subsection (b) the property owner may 1-9 petition the adopting municipality to include a part of the tract 1-10 that is within another municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction 1-11 into the adopting municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction. 1-12 Upon presentation of the petition, the governing body of the 1-13 adopting municipality may adopt an ordinance or resolution to 1-14 include the tract within its extraterritorial jurisdiction. The 1-15 tract of land is hereby transferred to the adopting municipality's 1-16 extraterritorial jurisdiction, and all rules and ordinances of the 1-17 adopting municipalities extraterritorial jurisdiction shall apply 1-18 to the transferred tract of land. 1-19 (g) Application of Subsection (f) is limited to tracts of 1-20 land that qualify for a petition on the date Subsection (f) takes 1-21 effect. Owners of these tracts of land have one year from the 1-22 effective date to file their petitions with the adopting 1-23 municipality. 2-1 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-2 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-3 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-4 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-5 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-6 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-7 passage, and it is so enacted.