Texas Local Government Code 42.152 – Authority to Request Election for Release
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(a) A resident of an area in a municipality‘s extraterritorial jurisdiction may request the municipality to hold an election in accordance with this subchapter to vote on the question of whether to release the area from the municipality’s extraterritorial jurisdiction by filing with the municipality a petition that includes the signatures of at least five percent of the registered voters residing in the area as of the date of the preceding uniform election date.
(b) A resident may not request another election on the question of releasing the same or substantially same area from the municipality’s extraterritorial jurisdiction before the second anniversary of the date the municipality receives a petition filed under Subsection (a).
Terms Used In Texas Local Government Code 42.152
- 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
(c) The petition must include a map of the land to be released and describe the boundaries of the land to be released by:
(1) metes and bounds; or
(2) lot and block number, if there is a recorded map or plat.