By Bosse                                         H.B. No. 502

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the extraterritorial jurisdiction of certain

 1-3     municipalities.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subchapter Z, Chapter 42, Local Government Code,

 1-6     is amended by adding Section 42.905 to read as follows:

 1-7           Sec. 42.905.  EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN LAND FROM EXTRATERRITORIAL

 1-8     JURISDICTION OF MUNICIPALITY WITH POPULATION OF MORE THAN 1.5

 1-9     MILLION.  (a)  The extraterritorial jurisdiction of a municipality

1-10     with a population of more than 1.5 million does not include any

1-11     land that would not have been included in the municipality's

1-12     extraterritorial jurisdiction but for the past or future annexation

1-13     of a municipally owned airport, water reservoir, or lake, including

1-14     adjacent lands, connected to the municipality by one or more

1-15     annexed strips of land that are less than 500 feet in width and

1-16     that include all or part of a roadway, canal, or other waterway.

1-17           (b)  The municipality's boundaries surrounding the airport,

1-18     water reservoir, or lake, including adjacent lands, along with the

1-19     boundaries of any strip less than 500 feet in width connecting the

1-20     same to the municipality, may not be taken into consideration in

1-21     determining the municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction, and

1-22     the extraterritorial jurisdiction shall be determined as if the

1-23     airport, water reservoir, lake, adjacent lands, and strips less

1-24     than 500 feet in width had not been annexed.

 2-1           SECTION 2.  (a)  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

 2-2           (b)  If, immediately before the effective date of this Act,

 2-3     the extraterritorial jurisdiction of a municipality includes land

 2-4     described by Section 42.905, Local Government Code, as added by

 2-5     this Act, the boundaries of the extraterritorial jurisdiction are

 2-6     revised on the effective date of this Act to exclude that land.

 2-7           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

 2-8     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

 2-9     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

2-10     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

2-11     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.