Bill Text: TX HB1241 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to municipal annexation of certain rights-of-way.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-05-10 - Laid on the table subject to call [HB1241 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB1241-Comm_Sub.html
87R14336 SCL-F | |||
By: Shine, Price, Smithee, | H.B. No. 1241 | ||
Thompson of Brazoria | |||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1241: | |||
By: Biedermann | C.S.H.B. No. 1241 |
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relating to municipal annexation of certain rights-of-way. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 43.1055, Local Government Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 43.1055. ANNEXATION OF ROAD [ |
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ON REQUEST OF OWNER OR MAINTAINING POLITICAL SUBDIVISION. | ||
Notwithstanding any other law, a municipality may by ordinance | ||
annex a road [ |
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owner of the [ |
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political subdivision that maintains the [ |
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under the procedures prescribed by Subchapter C-1. | ||
SECTION 2. Subchapter E, Chapter 43, Local Government Code, | ||
is amended by adding Section 43.1056 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 43.1056. ANNEXATION OF CONTIGUOUS OR CONNECTING | ||
RIGHTS-OF-WAY. (a) Notwithstanding any other law, a municipality | ||
that is annexing an area under Subchapter C-3, C-4, C-5, or D may | ||
also annex with the area: | ||
(1) the right-of-way of a street, highway, alley, or | ||
other public way or of a railway line, spur, or roadbed, that is: | ||
(A) contiguous and runs parallel to the | ||
municipality's boundaries; and | ||
(B) contiguous to the area being annexed under | ||
Subchapter C-3, C-4, C-5, or D or a right-of-way described by | ||
Subdivision (2); or | ||
(2) the right-of-way of a public road or highway | ||
connecting the area being annexed under Subchapter C-3, C-4, C-5, | ||
or D to the municipality by the most direct route. | ||
(b) A municipality may annex a right-of-way under this | ||
section only if: | ||
(1) the municipality provides written notice of the | ||
annexation to the owner of the right-of-way, through the owner's | ||
registered agent, if applicable, not later than the 61st day before | ||
the date of the proposed annexation; and | ||
(2) the owner of the right-of-way does not submit a | ||
written objection to the municipality before the date of the | ||
proposed annexation. | ||
(c) If the owner of a right-of-way proposed to be annexed | ||
under this section is a governmental entity, the entity may specify | ||
the location at which a municipality must deliver notice under | ||
Subsection (b). | ||
(d) Section 43.054 does not apply to the annexation of a | ||
right-of-way under this section. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |