TERRITORIAL REQUIREMENTS FOR INCORPORATION AS GENERAL-LAW MUNICIPALITY
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Laidlaw Waste Systems (Dallas), Inc. v. City of Wilmer (1995)
Most recently applied in Gonzales v. Concerned Citizens of Webberville (August 2005)
Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 149, Sec. 1, eff
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
A community may not incorporate as a general-law municipality unless it meets the following territorial requirements:
(1) a community with fewer than 2,000 inhabitants must have not more than two square miles of surface area;
(2) a community with 2,001 to 4,999 inhabitants must have not more than four square miles of surface area; and
(3) a community with 5,001 to 9,999 inhabitants must have not more than nine square miles of surface area.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.