Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 42.903 · Subchapter Z. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
EXTRATERRITORIAL JURISDICTION OF CERTAIN TYPE B OR C GENERAL-LAW MUNICIPALITIES.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) This section applies only to a Type B or C general-law municipality:
(1) that has more than 200 inhabitants;
(2) that is wholly surrounded, at the time of incorporation, by the extraterritorial jurisdiction of another municipality; and
(3) part of which was located, at any time before incorporation, in an area annexed for limited purposes by another municipality.
(b) The governing body of the municipality by resolution or ordinance may adopt an extraterritorial jurisdiction for all or part of the unincorporated area contiguous to the corporate boundaries of the municipality and located within one mile of those boundaries. The authority granted by this section is subject to the limitation provided by Section 26.178, Water Code.
(c) Within 90 days after the date the municipality adopts the resolution or ordinance, an owner of real property in the extraterritorial jurisdiction may petition the municipality to release the owner's property from the extraterritorial jurisdiction. On the presentation of the petition, the property:
(1) is automatically released from the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the municipality and becomes part of the extraterritorial jurisdiction or limited purpose area of the municipality whose jurisdiction surrounded, on May 31, 1989, the municipality from whose jurisdiction the property is released; and
(2) becomes subject to any existing zoning or other land use approval provisions that applied to the property before the property was included in the municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction under Subsection (b).
(d) The municipality may exercise in its extraterritorial jurisdiction the powers granted under state law to other municipalities in their extraterritorial jurisdiction, including the power to ensure its water supply and to carry out other public purposes.
(e) To the extent of any conflict, this section controls over other laws relating to the creation of extraterritorial jurisdiction.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 16, Sec. 13.01(a), eff. Aug. 26, 1991.
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