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Tex. Local Government Code § 5.005: SPECIAL-LAW MUNICIPALITY.
Where this section sits in the code
- LOCAL GOVERNMENT CODE
- TITLE 2. ORGANIZATION OF MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT
- SUBTITLE A. TYPES OF MUNICIPALITIES
- CHAPTER 5. TYPES OF MUNICIPALITIES IN GENERAL
- SUBCHAPTER A. TYPES OF MUNICIPALITIES
(a) A municipality is a special-law municipality if it operates under a municipal charter granted by a local law enacted by the Congress of the Republic of Texas or by the legislature.
(b) A special-law municipality that has amended its municipal charter as authorized by Article XI, Section 5, of the Texas Constitution is also a home-rule municipality.
Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 149, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1987.
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