Amend CSSB 89 as follows:
(1) Insert the following appropriately numbered section
to the bill and
renumber subsequent sections of the bill appropriately:
SECTION ____. Section 43.054(a), Local Government Code,
is amended to
read as follows:
(a) A municipality with a population of less than 1.6
million may not annex a
publicly or privately owned area, including a strip of
area following the course
of a road, highway, river, stream, or creek, unless the
width of the area at its
narrowest point is at least 1,000 feet.
(2) In SECTION 5 of the bill, in the recital to that
section (Committee Printing
page 9, line 23), strike "Section 43.0545" and substitute
"Sections 43.0545
and 43.0546".
(3) In SECTION 5 of the bill, after added Section
43.0545, Local Government
Code (Committee Printing page 10, between lines 24 and
25), insert the
following:
Sec. 43.0546. ANNEXATION OF CERTAIN ADJACENT AREAS BY
POPULOUS MUNICIPALITIES. (a) In this section, "municipal
area" means
the area within the corporate boundaries of a
municipality other than:
(1) an area annexed prior to the effective date of this
section that is less than
1,000 feet wide at any point;
(2) an area within the corporate boundaries of the
municipality that was
annexed by the municipality prior to the effective date
of this section and at
the time of the annexation the area was contiguous to
municipal territory that
was less than 1,000 feet wide at any point;
(3) an area annexed after December 1, 1995, and before
the effective date of
this section;
(4) municipally owned property; or
(5) an area contiguous to municipally owned property if
the municipally owned
property was annexed in an annexation that included an
area that was less
than 1,000 feet wide at its narrowest point.
(b) This section applies only to a municipality with a
population of 1.6 million
or more.
(c) A municipality to which this section applies may not
annex an area that is
less than 1,500 feet wide at any point. At least 1,500
feet of the perimeter of
the area annexed by a municipality must be conterminous
with the boundary
of the municipal area of the municipality.
(d) This section does not apply to territory:
(1) that is completely surrounded by municipal area;
(2) for which the owners of the area have requested
annexation by the
municipality;
(3) within a district whose elected board of directors
has by a majority vote
requested annexation;
(4) owned by the municipality; or
(5) that contains fewer than 50 inhabitants.
(4) In SECTION 16 of the bill, in Subsections (a), (c),
and (g) (Committee
Printing, page 37, line 15; page 37, line 21; and page
39, line 6), correct the
references to specific sections of the bill to take into
account the renumbering
of the sections of the bill required by item (1) of this
amendment, and in
correcting those references in Subsection (c) include a
reference to the
section added by item (1) of this amendment.
(5) In SECTION 16(d) of the bill (Committee Printing page
38, line 5), strike
"43.0545," and substitute "43.054, 43.0545, 43.0546,".
(6) In SECTION 16(e) of the bill (Committee Printing page
38, line 14), strike
"43.0545," and substitute "43.054, 43.0545, 43.0546,".