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

Tex. Local Government Code § 43.079: CONSENT REQUIREMENT FOR ANNEXATION OF AREA IN CERTAIN CONSERVATION AND RECLAMATION DISTRICTS.

(a) This section applies only to a conservation and reclamation district, including a municipal utility district, that:
(1) is located wholly in more than one municipality, but on April 1, 1971, was not wholly in more than one municipality;
(2) was created or exists under Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution;
(3) provides or has provided a fresh water supply, sanitary sewer services, and drainage services; and
(4) was not, on April 1, 1971, a party to a contract providing for a federal grant for research and development under 33 U.S.C. Sections 1155(a)(2) and (d).
(b) A municipality that has annexed area in the district is not required to obtain the consent of any municipality to annex additional area located wholly in the district other than the consent of the other municipalities that have annexed area in the district and have extraterritorial jurisdiction over the area proposed to be annexed.
Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 149, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1987. Amended by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1420, Sec. 12.102, eff. Sept. 1, 2001.

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 D. ANNEXATION PROVISIONS RELATING TO SPECIAL DISTRICTS

(a) This section applies only to a conservation and reclamation district, including a municipal utility district, that:

(1) is located wholly in more than one municipality, but on April 1, 1971, was not wholly in more than one municipality;

(2) was created or exists under Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution;

(3) provides or has provided a fresh water supply, sanitary sewer services, and drainage services; and

(4) was not, on April 1, 1971, a party to a contract providing for a federal grant for research and development under 33 U.S.C. Sections 1155(a)(2) and (d).

(b) A municipality that has annexed area in the district is not required to obtain the consent of any municipality to annex additional area located wholly in the district other than the consent of the other municipalities that have annexed area in the district and have extraterritorial jurisdiction over the area proposed to be annexed.

Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 149, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1987. Amended by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1420, Sec. 12.102, eff. Sept. 1, 2001.

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