Sec. 43.017. PROHIBITION AGAINST ANNEXATION TO SURROUND MUNICIPALITY IN CERTAIN COUNTIES. A municipality with a population of more than 175,000 located in a county that contains an international border and borders the Gulf of Mexico may not annex an area that would cause another municipality to be entirely surrounded by the corporate limits or extraterritorial jurisdiction of the annexing municipality.
Added by Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 941 (H.B. 4059), Sec. 3, eff. June 18, 2015.
Transferred and redesignated from Local Government Code, Section 43.037 by Acts 2017, 85th Leg., 1st C.S., Ch. 6 (S.B. 6), Sec. 10, eff. December 1, 2017.
Structure Texas Statutes
Title 2 - Organization of Municipal Government
Subtitle C - Municipal Boundaries and Annexation
Chapter 43 - Municipal Annexation
Subchapter A. -1. General Authority to Annex
Section 43.0115. Authority of Certain Municipalities to Annex Enclaves
Section 43.0116. Authority of Municipality to Annex Industrial Districts
Section 43.0117. Authority of Municipality to Annex Area Near Military Base
Section 43.012. Authority of Type a General-Law Municipality to Annex Area It Owns
Section 43.013. Authority of Municipality to Annex Navigable Stream
Section 43.014. Authority to Annex Limited to Extraterritorial Jurisdiction
Section 43.015. Authority of Adjacent Municipalities to Change Boundaries by Agreement
Section 43.017. Prohibition Against Annexation to Surround Municipality in Certain Counties