Sec. 43.037. 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.
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