1-1     By:  Bosse, Rabuck (Senate Sponsor - Lucio)           H.B. No. 2203

 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 5, 1997;

 1-3     May 6, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on

 1-4     Intergovernmental Relations; May 13, 1997, reported favorably by

 1-5     the following vote:  Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 13, 1997, sent to

 1-6     printer.)

 1-7                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-8                                   AN ACT

 1-9     relating to a requirement that a municipality maintain a public

1-10     record of its extraterritorial jurisdiction.

1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-12           SECTION 1.  Section 41.001, Local Government Code, is amended

1-13     to read as follows:

1-14           Sec. 41.001.  MAP OF MUNICIPAL BOUNDARIES AND

1-15     EXTRATERRITORIAL JURISDICTION.  (a)  Each municipality shall

1-16     prepare a map that shows the  boundaries of the municipality and of

1-17     its extraterritorial jurisdiction.  A copy of the map shall be kept

1-18     in the office of the secretary or  clerk of the municipality.  If

1-19     the municipality has a municipal engineer, a copy of the map shall

1-20     also be kept in the office of the engineer.

1-21           (b)  If the municipality annexes territory, the map shall be

1-22     immediately corrected to include the annexed territory.  The map

1-23     shall be annotated to indicate:

1-24                 (1)  the date of annexation;

1-25                 (2)  the number of the annexation ordinance, if any;

1-26     and

1-27                 (3)  a reference to the minutes or municipal ordinance

1-28     records in which the ordinance is recorded in full.

1-29           (c)  If the municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction is

1-30     expanded or reduced, the map shall be immediately corrected to

1-31     indicate the change in the municipality's extraterritorial

1-32     jurisdiction.  The map shall be annotated to indicate:

1-33                 (1)  the date the municipality's extraterritorial

1-34     jurisdiction was changed;

1-35                 (2)  the number of the ordinance or resolution, if any,

1-36     by which the change was made; and

1-37                 (3)  a reference to the minutes or municipal ordinance

1-38     or resolution records in which the ordinance or resolution is

1-39     recorded in full.

1-40           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-41           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-42     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-43     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-44     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-45     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.

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