Tex. Local Government Code § 42.904
This is the official text of Tex. Local Government Code § 42.904, part of Texas’s Local Government Code — governs the powers and operations of Texas cities and counties.
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§ 42.904. EXTRATERRITORIAL JURISDICTION AND VOTING RIGHTS IN CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES.
Official statutory text
(a) This section applies only to a municipality that has disannexed territory under Section 43.133 that it had previously annexed for limited purposes and that has extended rules to its extraterritorial jurisdiction under Section 212.003.
(b) The municipality shall allow all qualified voters residing in the municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction to vote on any proposition that is submitted to the voters of the municipality and that involves:
(1) an adoption of or change to an ordinance or charter provision that would apply to the municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction; or
(2) a nonbinding referendum that, if binding, would apply to the municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction.
(b) The municipality shall allow all qualified voters residing in the municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction to vote on any proposition that is submitted to the voters of the municipality and that involves:
(1) an adoption of or change to an ordinance or charter provision that would apply to the municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction; or
(2) a nonbinding referendum that, if binding, would apply to the municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction.
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