Texas Water Code 51.871 – Definitions
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Terms Used In Texas Water Code 51.871
- 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.
In this subchapter:
(1) “Dissociated municipality” means a home-rule municipality from whose extraterritorial jurisdiction a district is transferred under this subchapter.
(2) “Associated municipality” means a home-rule municipality into whose extraterritorial jurisdiction a district is transferred under this subchapter.
(3) “Home-rule municipality” has the meaning assigned by § 5.004, Local Government Code.