{"id":928,"date":"2017-11-07T22:12:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T22:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/2017\/11\/07\/2-ways-a-texas-city-annexation-plan-is-not-lawful-so-says-texas-attorney-general\/"},"modified":"2017-11-07T22:12:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T22:12:00","slug":"2-ways-a-texas-city-annexation-plan-is-not-lawful-so-says-texas-attorney-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/2-ways-a-texas-city-annexation-plan-is-not-lawful-so-says-texas-attorney-general\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Ways a Texas City Annexation Plan is Not Lawful. So Says Texas Attorney General"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton lays out 2 ways McKinney&#8217;s proposed annexation plan isn&#8217;t lawful:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the annexation notice violates the\u00a0Texas Local Government Code and the Open Meetings Act<\/li>\n<li>the notice for the\u00a0Aug. 28 mcKinney City Council meeting violates the\u00a0Texas Local Government Code and the Open Meetings Act<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>How the notices violate the Open Meetings Act and Local Government Code:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>do not provide a description of the property the city plans to annex<\/li>\n<li>the council&#8217;s agenda item was unclear that the city intended to give city staff permission to annex specific properties, rather than providing guidance on annexation policies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/collin-county\/2017\/11\/06\/mckinneys-annexation-plan-may-violate-state-law-attorney-general-says\">Dallas Morning News |\u00a0McKinney&#8217;s annexation plan may violate state law, attorney general says<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton lays out 2 ways McKinney&#8217;s proposed annexation plan isn&#8217;t lawful:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the annexation notice violates the\u00a0Texas Local Government Code and the Open Meetings Act<\/li>\n<li>the notice for the\u00a0Aug. 28 mcKinney City Council meeting violates the\u00a0Texas Local Government Code and the Open Meetings Act<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>How the notices violate the Open Meetings Act and Local Government Code:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>do not provide a description of the property the city plans to annex<\/li>\n<li>the council&#8217;s agenda item was\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,55,37,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-annexation","category-attorney-general","category-local-government-trend","category-private-property-rights","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}