1-1 By: Lindsay S.B. No. 704
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 21, 1997; February 25, 1997,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
1-4 Relations; May 6, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 8, Nays 1; May 6, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to limited-purpose annexation by certain home-rule
1-9 municipalities.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 43.121, Local Government
1-12 Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-13 (a) The governing body of a home-rule municipality with more
1-14 than 225,000 inhabitants[, if authorized under its home-rule
1-15 charter,] by ordinance may annex an area for the limited purposes
1-16 of applying its planning, zoning, health, and safety ordinances in
1-17 the area.
1-18 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-23 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-24 passage, and it is so enacted.
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