AUTHOR'S / SPONSOR'S STATEMENT OF INTENT
Several years ago the City of Corsicana hired a consulting firm to determine what needed to be done to make the city more attractive for businesses and residents to move there. The primary objection found by the consulting firm related to unkempt and derelict properties along the corridors leading into Corsicana. The city has managed to clean up a lot of what is within the city limits and its existing extraterritorial jurisdiction, but has had trouble getting property owners to comply with existing city regulations regarding trash dumping and sewer systems.
H.B. 91 gives the City of Corsicana, in Navarro County, the tools it needs to address illegal trash dumping and illegal sewage leaking into substandard housing developments on some of the major arteries leading into the town.
The bill, which applies only to Corsicana, simply expands the city's extraterritorial jurisdiction from two miles to three miles to allow the city to implement existing city regulations. The bill does not change the current statute that prohibits the regulation of the number, size, and use of buildings constructed on a particular piece of property.
H.B. 91 amends current law relating to the extent of extraterritorial jurisdiction for certain municipalities.
RULEMAKING AUTHORITY
SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS
SECTION 1. Amends Section 42.021, Local Government Code, by adding Subsection (c), provide that, regardless of Subsection (a) (providing that extraterritorial jurisdiction of a municipality is the unincorporated area that is contiguous to the corporate boundaries of the municipality and that is located within certain boundaries), the extraterritorial jurisdiction of a municipality is the unincorporated area that is contiguous to the corporate boundaries of the municipality and that is located within three miles of those boundaries if the municipality has a population of not less than 20,000 or more than 29,000, and is located in a county that has a population of 45,000 or more and borders the Trinity River.
SECTION 2. Effective date: September 1, 2011.