Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 43.1025 · Subchapter E. ANNEXATION PROVISIONS RELATING TO RESERVOIRS, AIRPORTS, STREETS, AND CERTAIN OTHER AREAS
ANNEXATION OF NONCONTIGUOUS MUNICIPALLY OWNED AIRPORT BY CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) This section applies only to a home-rule municipality that has a population of less than 13,000 and is located primarily in a county with a population of more than 3.3 million.
(b) The municipality may annex the unincorporated area of an airport owned by the municipality that is noncontiguous to the boundaries of the municipality regardless of whether the airport is located in the municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction. The annexation may include any unincorporated area located in the proximity of the airport.
(c) The area described by Subsection (b) may be annexed under the requirements prescribed by Subchapter C-3, C-4, or C-5, as applicable, but the annexation may not occur unless each municipality in whose extraterritorial jurisdiction the area may be located:
(1) consents to the annexation; and
(2) reduces its extraterritorial jurisdiction over the area as provided by Section 42.023.
(d) If the area proposed for annexation is completely surrounded by territory under the jurisdiction of another municipality, regardless of whether that jurisdiction is full-purpose, limited-purpose, or extraterritorial, that municipality must find that the annexation is in the public interest.
(e) Repealed by Acts 2017, 85th Leg., 1st C.S., Ch. 6 (S.B. 6), Sec. 55(a), eff. December 1, 2017.
(f) The annexation of area under this section outside the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the annexing municipality does not expand the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the municipality.
(g) Repealed by Acts 2017, 85th Leg., 1st C.S., Ch. 6 (S.B. 6), Sec. 55(a), eff. December 1, 2017.
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History
Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 423 (S.B. 1349), Sec. 1, eff. June 15, 2007.
Amended by:
Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 1163 (H.B. 2702), Sec. 63, eff. September 1, 2011.
Acts 2017, 85th Leg., 1st C.S., Ch. 6 (S.B. 6), Sec. 32, eff. December 1, 2017.
Acts 2017, 85th Leg., 1st C.S., Ch. 6 (S.B. 6), Sec. 55(a), eff. December 1, 2017.
Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 155 (H.B. 347), Sec. 1.06, eff. May 24, 2019.
Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 644 (H.B. 4559), Sec. 124, eff. September 1, 2023.
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