83R5578 JTS-F
By: Rodriguez of Travis H.B. No. 2171
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the annexation by a municipality of territory of an
emergency services district.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Sections 775.022(a) and (c), Health and Safety
Code, are amended to read as follows:
(a) If a municipality completes all other procedures
necessary to annex territory in a district and if the municipality
intends to remove the territory from the district and be the sole
provider of [provide] emergency services to the territory by the
use of municipal personnel or by some method other than by use of
the district, the municipality shall send written notice of those
facts [that fact] to the board. The municipality must send the
notice to the secretary of the board by certified mail, return
receipt requested. The territory remains part of the district and
does not become part of the municipality until the secretary of the
board receives the notice. On receipt of the notice, the board
shall immediately change its records to show that the territory has
been disannexed from the district and shall cease to provide
further services to the residents of that territory. This
subsection does not require a municipality to remove from a
district territory the municipality has annexed.
(c) If a municipality removes [annexes] territory from [in]
a district that the municipality has annexed, the municipality
shall compensate the district immediately after disannexation of
the territory under Subsection (a) in an amount equal to the annexed
territory's pro rata share of the district's bonded and other
indebtedness as computed according to the formula in Subsection
(e). The district shall apply compensation received from a
municipality under this subsection exclusively to the payment of
the annexed territory's pro rata share of the district's bonded and
other indebtedness.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.