(a) A municipality may annex:
(1) an airport owned by the municipality; and
(2) the right-of-way of any public road or highway connecting the airport to the municipality by the most direct route.
(b) The municipality may annex the area if:
(1) none of the area is more than eight miles from the municipality’s boundaries; and
(2) each municipality in whose extraterritorial jurisdiction the airport is located agrees to the annexation.

Terms Used In Texas Local Government Code 43.102

  • 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
  • Year: means 12 consecutive months. See Texas Government Code 311.005

(c) A municipality may annex the area described by this section without the consent of any owners or residents of the area under the procedures prescribed by Subchapter C-1 if there are no owners other than the municipality or residents of the area.
(d) The municipality may annex the area even if the area is outside the municipality’s extraterritorial jurisdiction, is in another municipality’s extraterritorial jurisdiction, or is narrower than the minimum width prescribed by § 43.054. § 43.055, which relates to the amount of area a municipality may annex in a calendar year, does not apply to the annexation.
(e) The annexation under this section of area outside the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the annexing municipality does not expand the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the municipality.

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