Terms Used In Texas Local Government Code 216.0035

  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Municipality: means a general-law municipality, home-rule municipality, or special-law municipality. See Texas Local Government Code 1.005

The authority granted to a municipality by this subchapter to require the relocation, reconstruction, or removal of signs does not apply to:
(1) on-premises signs in the extraterritorial jurisdiction of municipalities in a county described by Section 394.063, Transportation Code, if the circumstances described by that section occur; and
(2) on-premises signs in a municipality’s extraterritorial jurisdiction in a county that borders a county described by that law.

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