By Lewis of Orange                              H.B. No. 3178

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to limiting the area that may be included within the

 1-3     extraterritorial jurisdiction of certain municipalities.

 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 Section 42.026 to read as follows:

 1-7           Sec. 42.026.  LIMITATION ON EXTRATERRITORIAL JURISDICTION OF

 1-8     CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES.  (a)  This section applies only to a

 1-9     home-rule municipality  located in whole or in part in a county

1-10     with a population of 240,000 or less.

1-11           (b)  The extraterritorial jurisdiction of the municipality

1-12     does not include:

1-13                 (1)  territory located outside the county in which a

1-14     majority of the land area of the municipality is located; and

1-15                 (2)  territory separated from the municipality's

1-16     corporate boundaries by a navigable stream.

1-17           (c)  In this section, "navigable stream" has the meaning

1-18     assigned by Section 21.001, Natural Resources Code.

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.