By Hamric                                       H.B. No. 3073

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to restrictions on a municipality's authority to annex

 1-3     certain property.

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

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 43.051, Local Government Code, is amended

 1-6     to read as follows:

 1-7           Sec. 43.051.  AUTHORITY TO ANNEX [LIMITED TO EXTRATERRITORIAL

 1-8     JURISDICTION].  (a)  A municipality may annex area only in its

 1-9     extraterritorial jurisdiction unless the municipality owns the

1-10     area.

1-11           (b)  A municipality may not annex an area in the

1-12     extraterritorial jurisdiction of the municipality if the area is

1-13     not directly adjacent to the boundaries of the municipality.  An

1-14     area is not directly adjacent to the boundaries of a municipality

1-15     if the area is adjacent to the boundaries of the municipality by a

1-16     strip of area in the municipality that follows the course of a

1-17     road, highway, river, stream, or creek, and that has a width of

1-18     less than 5,000 feet at any point in the strip of area.

1-19           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-20           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-21     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-22     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-23     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-24     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.