§ 1.06. Corporate boundaries and annexation.

The council shall have the power by ordinance to fix the corporate boundaries of the city and to provide for the alteration and extension of said corporate boundaries, the annexation of additional territory lying adjacent to the city, and the detachment or disannexation of territory, with or without the consent of the owners and inhabitants of the territory annexed, detached or disannexed, in any manner not inconsistent with the procedural rules prescribed by the laws of the State of Texas, including but not limited to Chapter 160, page 447, Article 1, Acts of the Fifty-eighth Legislature of the State of Texas, Regular Session, 1963, the same being the Municipal Annexation Act, compiled as Vernon's Ann. Civ. St. art. 970a, as heretofore or hereafter amended. Upon the final passage of any ordinance annexing territory, the corporate boundaries of the city shall thereafter include the territory annexed. When any additional territory has been annexed, the same shall be a part of the city; the property situated therein shall thereafter be subject to taxes levied by the city; and the inhabitants thereof shall be entitled to all of the rights and privileges of all citizens, and shall be bound by this Charter and the ordinances, resolutions, rules and regulations of the city. Upon the final passage of any ordinance detaching or disannexing territory from the city, the incorporated area of the city shall be reduced by the territory detached or disannexed.

Editor's note

For current statutory provisions pertaining to municipal annexations, see V.T.C.A., Local Government Code ch. 43.