Texas · Through 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025

Tex. Local Government Code § 43.017: PROHIBITION AGAINST ANNEXATION TO SURROUND MUNICIPALITY IN CERTAIN COUNTIES.

Where this section sits in the code

LOCAL GOVERNMENT CODE
TITLE 2. ORGANIZATION OF MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT
SUBTITLE C. MUNICIPAL BOUNDARIES AND ANNEXATION
CHAPTER 43. MUNICIPAL ANNEXATION
SUBCHAPTER A-1. GENERAL AUTHORITY TO ANNEX

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.

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.

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