Sec. 3818.106. ANNEXATION. (a) Subject to the approval of the governing body of the City of Houston the district may:

(1) annex territory in accordance with Subchapter J, Chapter 49, Water Code; or

(2) annex territory located inside the boundaries of a reinvestment zone created under Chapter 311, Tax Code, as those boundaries existed on September 1, 2001.

(b) The district may annex territory described by Subsection (a)(2) only if:

(1) the district holds a public hearing on the proposed annexation and publishes notice in the district not later than the 15th day before the date of the hearing; and

(2) a majority of the qualified voters of the territory that the district proposes to annex voting at an election held within that territory approve:

(A) the annexation;

(B) the assumption of the bonds, notes, obligations, taxes, and special assessments created before the annexation of the area to the district; and

(C) the assumption of the bonds of the district payable wholly or partly from taxes or special assessments that have been voted previously but not yet issued or sold and the imposition of an ad valorem tax or special assessment on all taxable property within the annexed area for the payment of the bonds.

(c) If the voters approve each proposition under Subsection (b)(2), the board may adopt an order adding the annexed territory to the district.

(d) An election under Subsection (b) must be held and notice must be given in the territory that the district proposes to annex in the same manner as provided for a bond election held by the district. The district may hold an election to annex territory on the same day as another district election.

(e) The board may:

(1) call an election to annex territory by a separate election order or as a part of another election order;

(2) submit multiple purposes in a single proposition at an election; or

(3) order multiple elections to annex the same territory.

(f) The district may annex defined areas of land, regardless of whether the areas are contiguous to the district.

(g) An annexed area shall bear that area's pro rata share of all bonds, notes, or other obligations, taxes, or special assessments that may be owed, contracted for, or authorized by the district.

(h) The election, notice, and hearing requirements imposed by Subsections (b)-(g) do not apply to an annexation under Subsection (a)(1).

Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 729 (H.B. 2019), Sec. 1.03, eff. April 1, 2007.