Texas Local Government Code 42.023 – Reduction of Extraterritorial Jurisdiction
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Terms Used In Texas Local Government Code 42.023
- 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
- Written: includes any representation of words, letters, symbols, or figures. See Texas Government Code 311.005
The extraterritorial jurisdiction of a municipality may not be reduced unless the governing body of the municipality gives its written consent by ordinance or resolution, except:
(1) in cases of judicial apportionment of overlapping extraterritorial jurisdictions under § 42.901;
(2) in accordance with an agreement under § 42.022(d); or
(3) as necessary to comply with § 42.0235.