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RESO - 35
1/11/79
WHEREAS existing state laws do not permit cities to extend the application
of their building, electrical, plumbing and housing ordinances to areas outside
their city limits but within their extra -territorial limits, and
WHEREAS, the lack of proper control often results in substandard subdivisions
being constructed which create many problems for the adjoining cities especially
when such areas are annexed, NOW THEREFORE:
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK:
THAT the City Council supports legislation in the upcoming 1979 legislative
session of the State of Texas which would extend the powers of cities in particul
their building, electrical, plumbing and housing codes to the extra -territorial
area around such cities, and
THAT the members of the Lubbock delegation to the 1979 legislature are
urged to support such legislation.
Passed by the City Council this
11th
ATTEST;.'
Ev yn Gaff a, City Secretary- easurer
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Kennet Jones, Senior Asst. C Attorney
day of January 1979.
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W
WEST, MAYOR