§ 1.05. Notice and hearing on extension of boundaries.

Before enacting the ordinance provided and referred to in either of the preceding sections numbered 1.03 and 1.04, the City Council shall hold a public hearing after notice thereof given by publication in one (1) issue of some newspaper of general circulation within the City of Mission, Texas, at least ten (10) days prior to the date set for such hearing, setting forth therein the territory, area, or several areas proposed to be brought within the City limits (at which hearing the inhabitants of such territory, area or areas, and the owners of property within the same, may in person or by counsel offer evidence and present their views in favor of or against such inclusion, in addition to the presentation of evidence for or against the same on the part of the then existing City of Mission, the inhabitants and taxpayers thereof) and upon such hearing shall find from the evidence submitted that the inclusion of such territory, area, areas, or some portion thereof, to be described in the findings of the Council, is adjacent to the City limits and that the inclusion thereof within said limits would be a benefit to the owners of the property therein, and that the inclusion of such territory or portions thereof would likewise be a benefit to the then existing City of Mission. The findings made by the City Council, after such notice and hearing shall be final and conclusive as to the facts so found and shall be a sufficient and legal basis for the enactment of the ordinances above provided for. In the event State law requires a home rule city to follow a different procedure for notice and hearing prior to annexation than that prescribed in this section, the State law shall control.

(Amended 1-17-1987)