Texas Local Government Code - LOC GOV'T § 42.152. Authority to Request Election for Release

(a) A resident of an area in a municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction may request the municipality to hold an election in accordance with this subchapter to vote on the question of whether to release the area from the municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction by filing with the municipality a petition that includes the signatures of at least five percent of the registered voters residing in the area as of the date of the preceding uniform election date.

(b) A resident may not request another election on the question of releasing the same or substantially same area from the municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction before the second anniversary of the date the municipality receives a petition filed under Subsection (a).

(c) The petition must include a map of the land to be released and describe the boundaries of the land to be released by: