Sec. 43.853. NOTICE: INCLUDING AREA IN PLAN. (a) An affected municipality that adopts or amends its municipal annexation plan to include all or part of an affected unincorporated area must comply with this chapter and all other requirements of law relating to the adoption or amendment of a municipal annexation plan.
(b) Before the 90th day after the date an affected municipality adopts or amends its municipal annexation plan to include all or part of the affected unincorporated area, the municipality shall post a notice of the proposed annexation in at least three public places within the affected unincorporated area. The notice must remain posted for at least seven consecutive days. The first day of posting must occur before that 90th day.
(c) On or before the 90th day after the date an affected municipality adopts or amends its municipal annexation plan to include all or part of the affected unincorporated area, the municipality shall publish a notice of the proposed annexation in at least two newspapers of general circulation within the affected unincorporated area. The municipality shall publish a second notice in the same manner not less than 7 days and not more than 14 days after the first notice is published. If the affected unincorporated area is located within the Mauriceville boundary, the municipality shall publish the notice as provided by this subsection in at least two newspapers of general circulation within the Mauriceville community.
Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1123, Sec. 1, eff. June 15, 2001.
Amended by:
Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 1083 (H.B. 1812), Sec. 2, eff. June 18, 2005.
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