By Hamric H.B. No. 3073
75R5071 CAG-D
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.