Sec. 572.056. PETITION AND REFERENDUM

(a) If, before the date set for the adoption of a concurrent ordinance that creates a public utility agency or adds a public entity to an agency, 10 percent of the registered voters of a public entity required to publish notice of the creation or addition present a petition to the governing body of the entity requesting that a referendum be called, the ordinance may not take effect unless a majority of the qualified voters of the entity voting in the election have approved the ordinance.

(b) The public entity must hold the election in conformity with:

(1) the Election Code;

(2) Chapter 1251, Government Code; and

(3) this subchapter.

(c) Except as provided by Subsection (a), a concurrent ordinance is not subject to a referendum.

Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 227, Sec. 19, eff. Sept. 1, 1999. Renumbered from Local Government Code, Section 422.056 by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 885 , Sec. 3.76(c)(2), eff. April 1, 2009. Amended by: Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 667 , Sec. 5, eff. June 17, 2011.