Texas Local Government Code 382.002 – Applicability
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Terms Used In Texas Local Government Code 382.002
- 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
- Population: means the population shown by the most recent federal decennial census. See Texas Government Code 311.005
This chapter applies only to:
(1) a county with a population of 1.5 million or more, other than a county that:
(A) borders on the Gulf of Mexico or a bay or inlet of the gulf; or
(B) has two municipalities located wholly or partly in its boundaries each having a population of 225,000 or more; or
(2) a county with a population of 70,000 or more that is adjacent to a county described by Subdivision (1) in which a municipality with a population of 90,000 or more is primarily situated and includes all or a part of the extraterritorial jurisdiction of a municipality with a population of 1.1 million or more.