Texas Local Government Code 375.309 – Municipal Annexation of Area in an Authority
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(a) A municipality that creates an authority under this subchapter may annex all or part of the territory located in the authority under Chapter 43.
(b) Annexation of territory located in the authority does not affect the operation of the authority.
Terms Used In Texas Local Government Code 375.309
- 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
(c) Creation of an authority does not:
(1) affect the power of the municipality to designate all or part of an area in the authority as an industrial authority;
(2) limit a power of the municipality conferred by Chapter 42; or
(3) impose a duty on or affect the power of the municipality to provide municipal services to any area in the municipality or its extraterritorial jurisdiction that is in the authority.