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development districts. The amendments allow any municipality to create a municipal develop- <br />ment district, and allow that a municipal development district may include, in whole or in part,, a <br />municipality's ETJ. <br />Chapter 243 of the TLGC allows city and county regulation of sexually oriented businesse-a <br />("SOB,s"). Most municipal ordinances that regulate SOBs provide distance requirements; i.e., <br />requirements that a SOB may not be located within a certain number of feet of a church, school, <br />reside ntia, I ly-zo ned area, day care center or other sexually oriented business. (Sec. 243.006 (a)). <br />Section 243.003 (b) of the TLGC specifically, states that "[alregulation adopted by a municipality <br />applies only inside the municipality's corporate limits."' However, after discussion of case law <br />from other states, the Texas Attorney General concluded that even though Section 243.003 of <br />the TLGC does not give extraterritorial effect to an SOB ordinance, Section 243.006(a)(2) of the <br />TLGC nonetheless may apply. <br />"A city may apply a municipal ordinance to prohibit a sexually oriented business within a <br />specified distance of a school, church, or other entity covered by Section 243,006 (a) (2) of the <br />TLGC even though that entity is not within the corporate limits of the city in question, so <br />on long as <br />the sexually oriented business is within those limits. Such applicatidoes not violate the <br />statutory requirement that the ordinance only apply in the city's corporate limits."" <br />0 <br />Therefore, the distance requirements contained in local S013 ordinances may be enforced, even <br />Of the underlying SOB ordinance has no extraterritorial effect. <br />9 <br />