Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 43.017 · Subchapter A-1. GENERAL AUTHORITY TO ANNEX
PROHIBITION AGAINST ANNEXATION TO SURROUND MUNICIPALITY IN CERTAIN COUNTIES.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
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 may not annex an area that would cause another municipality to be entirely surrounded by the corporate limits or extraterritorial jurisdiction of the annexing municipality.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 941 (H.B. 4059), Sec. 3, eff. June 18, 2015.
Transferred and redesignated from Local Government Code, Section 43.037 by Acts 2017, 85th Leg., 1st C.S., Ch. 6 (S.B. 6), Sec. 10, eff. December 1, 2017.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/LG/htm/LG.43.htm
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- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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