SUBCHAPTER Z. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS AFFECTING TYPES OF MUNICIPALITIES

Sec. 5.901.  TERRITORIAL REQUIREMENTS FOR INCORPORATION AS GENERAL-LAW MUNICIPALITY.  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.
Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 149, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1987.