Texas Special District Local Laws Code 3926.110 – Adding or Removing Territory
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Terms Used In Texas Special District Local Laws Code 3926.110
- 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.
As provided by Subchapter J, Chapter 49, Water Code, the board may add territory inside the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the city to the district or remove territory inside the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the city from the district, except that:
(1) the addition or removal of the territory must be approved by the city;
(2) the addition or removal may not occur without petition by the owners of the territory being added or removed; and
(3) territory may not be removed from the district if bonds or other obligations of the district payable wholly or partly from assessments assessed on the territory are outstanding.