S.B. No. 1397 AN ACT 1-1 relating to the release of extraterritorial jurisdiction over a 1-2 tract of land by certain municipalities and the inclusion of that 1-3 tract in the extraterritorial jurisdiction of another municipality. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 42, Local Government Code, 1-6 is amended by adding Section 42.024 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 42.024. RELEASE OF EXTRATERRITORIAL JURISDICTION BY 1-8 CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES. (a) In this section, "eligible property" 1-9 means any portion of a contiguous tract of land: 1-10 (1) that is located in the extraterritorial 1-11 jurisdiction of a municipality within one-half mile of the 1-12 territory of a proposed municipal airport; 1-13 (2) for which a contract for land acquisition services 1-14 was awarded by the municipality; and 1-15 (3) that has not been acquired through the contract 1-16 described by Subdivision (2) for the proposed municipal airport. 1-17 (b) The owner of eligible property may petition the 1-18 municipality to release the property from the municipality's 1-19 extraterritorial jurisdiction not later than June 1, 1996. The 1-20 petition must be filed with the secretary or clerk of the 1-21 municipality. 1-22 (c) Not later than the 10th day after the date the secretary 1-23 or clerk receives a petition under Subsection (b), the municipality 2-1 by resolution shall release the eligible property from the 2-2 extraterritorial jurisdiction of the municipality. 2-3 (d) Eligible property that is released from the 2-4 extraterritorial jurisdiction of a municipality under Subsection 2-5 (c) may be included in the extraterritorial jurisdiction of another 2-6 municipality if: 2-7 (1) any part of the other municipality is located in 2-8 the same county as the property; and 2-9 (2) the other municipality and the owner agree to the 2-10 inclusion of the property in the extraterritorial jurisdiction. 2-11 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-12 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-13 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-14 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-15 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-16 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-17 passage, and it is so enacted.