By: Barrientos S.B. No. 1397 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the release of extraterritorial jurisdiction by certain 1-2 municipalities and the inclusion of the released territory in the 1-3 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 Sections 42.025 and 42.026 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 42.025. RELEASE OF EXTRATERRITORIAL JURISDICTION BY 1-8 CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES. (a) In this section: 1-9 (1) "Municipality" means an incorporated city, town, 1-10 or village to which Section 16A of the Municipal Airports Act 1-11 (Article 46d-1 et seq., Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes) applies. 1-12 (2) "Airport Footprint Property" means any tract of 1-13 land located in whole our part within one half mile of a proposed 1-14 municipal airport boundary for which a contract for land 1-15 acquisition services was awarded by the municipality but through 1-16 which land was not acquired to provide a replacement airport for 1-17 the municipality, and any contiguous land under the same ownership. 1-18 (b) The owner of an airport footprint property may petition 1-19 the clerk of a municipality by certified mail for the release of 1-20 that property from the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the 1-21 municipality within one year of the effective date of this section. 1-22 The property shall be released from the extraterritorial 1-23 jurisdiction of the municipality without any financial charge or 2-1 fee to the owner by the municipality ten days after the petition is 2-2 received by the clerk of the municipality. 2-3 Sec. 42.026. INCLUSION OF PROPERTY RELEASED FROM THE 2-4 EXTRATERRITORIAL JURISDICTION OF A MUNICIPALITY IN THE 2-5 EXTRATERRITORIAL JURISDICTION OF ANOTHER MUNICIPALITY. 2-6 Property released from the extraterritorial jurisdiction of a 2-7 municipality under Section 42.025 of this Subchapter may be 2-8 included in the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the municipality 2-9 located in the same county as and closest to the property by the 2-10 written consent of the property owner and the agreement of the 2-11 governing body of the municipality. 2-12 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-13 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-15 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.