Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 42.0235 · Subchapter B. DETERMINATION OF EXTRATERRITORIAL JURISDICTION
LIMITATION ON EXTRATERRITORIAL JURISDICTION OF CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) Notwithstanding Section 42.021, and except as provided by Subsection (d), the extraterritorial jurisdiction of a municipality with a population of more than 175,000 located in a county that contains an international border and borders the Gulf of Mexico terminates two miles from the extraterritorial jurisdiction of a neighboring municipality if extension of the extraterritorial jurisdiction beyond that limit would:
(1) completely surround the corporate boundaries or extraterritorial jurisdiction of the neighboring municipality; and
(2) limit the growth of the neighboring municipality by precluding the expansion of the neighboring municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction.
(b) A municipality shall release extraterritorial jurisdiction as necessary to comply with Subsection (a).
(c) Notwithstanding any other law, a municipality that owns an electric system and that releases extraterritorial jurisdiction under Subsection (b) may provide electric service in the released area to the same extent that the service would have been provided if the municipality had annexed the area.
(d) Extraterritorial jurisdiction for a municipality subject to this section is determined under Section 42.021 if the governing body of the municipality and the governing body of the neighboring municipality each adopt, on or after June 1, 2017, resolutions stating that the determination of extraterritorial jurisdiction under Section 42.0235(a) is not in the best interest of the municipality.
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History
Added by Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 941 (H.B. 4059), Sec. 2, eff. June 18, 2015.
Amended by:
Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 447 (S.B. 468), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2017.
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