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Tex. Local Government Code § 43.901

This is the official text of Tex. Local Government Code § 43.901, part of Texas’s Local Government Code — governs the powers and operations of Texas cities and counties.

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§ 43.901. CIRCUMSTANCES IN WHICH CONSENT TO BOUNDARIES OR ANNEXATION IS PRESUMED.

Official statutory text

A municipal ordinance defining boundaries of or annexing area to a municipality is conclusively presumed to have been adopted with the consent of all appropriate persons, except another municipality, if:

(1) two years have expired after the date of the adoption of the ordinance; and

(2) an action to annul or review the adoption of the ordinance has not been initiated in that two-year period.

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