16 - DISANNEXATION REQUESTS 36TH N.E.

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development districts. The amendments allow any municipality to create a municipal develop- ment district, and allow that a municipal development district may include, in whole or in part, a municipality's FT1. 11. The "SOB" Zone Chapter 243 of the TLGC allows city and county regulation of sexually oriented businesses ( "SOBs "). Most municipal ordinances that regulate SOBS provide distance requirements; i.e., requirements that a SOB may not be located within a certain number of feet of a church, school, residentially -zoned area, day care center or other sexually oriented business. (Sec. 243.006 (a)). Section 243.003 (b) of the TLGC specifically, states that "(a] regulation adopted by a municipality applies only inside the municipality's corporate limits." However, after discussion of case law from other states, the Texas Attorney General concluded that even though Section 243.003 of the TLGC does not give extraterritorial effect to an SOB ordinance, Section 243.006(a)(2) of the TLGC nonetheless may apply. "A city may apply a municipal ordinance to prohibit a sexually oriented business within a specified distance of a school, church, or other entity covered by Section 243.006 (a) (2) of the TLGC even though that entity is not within the corporate limits of the city in question, so long as the sexually oriented business is within those limits. Such application does not violate the statutory requirement that the ordinance only apply in the city's corporate limits." Therefore, the distance requirements contained in local SOB ordinances may be enforced, even if the underlying SOB ordinance has no extraterritorial effect.