{"data":{"id":"us-tx/tex.-local-government-code-42.157","jurisdiction":"us-tx","citation":"Tex. Local Government Code § 42.157","heading":"OPT OUT OF REMOVAL.","body":"Before an area is released from a municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction under this subchapter, a landowner in the area to be released must be provided the opportunity to have the landowner's property remain within the municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction.\nAdded by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1041 (H.B. 2512), Sec. 5, eff. September 1, 2025.","path":["LOCAL GOVERNMENT CODE","TITLE 2. ORGANIZATION OF MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT","SUBTITLE C. MUNICIPAL BOUNDARIES AND ANNEXATION","CHAPTER 42. EXTRATERRITORIAL JURISDICTION OF MUNICIPALITIES","SUBCHAPTER E. RELEASE OF AREA BY ELECTION FROM EXTRATERRITORIAL JURISDICTION"],"source_url":"https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/LG/htm/LG.42.htm#42.157","current_through":"89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T01:47:27Z","sha256":"d430114343b47538d59193511f6673a937698bc8cf815664481544db26144939","source_id":"us-tx","stale":false,"prev":"us-tx/tex.-local-government-code-42.156","next":"us-tx/tex.-local-government-code-42.901"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}