Bowie County residents seeking to repeal recent Texarkana, Texas, land annexations delivered a sixth and final petition to the city secretary Wednesday.
If the petitions are valid, they will force the City Council to vote on repealing the ordinances, passed last month, that bring six territories into the city limits. A council vote against repeal would trigger an automatic election, and Texas-side residents would decide whether the ordinances will stand.
Residents of the land to be annexed would not get a vote. Many have vocally opposed becoming part of the city, saying they do not want city services or to pay city taxes.
City Secretary Jennifer Evans is in the process of reviewing all six petitions to ensure they have enough qualified signatures and are otherwise valid.
The number of signatures needed on the petition is equal to 25 percent of the voters in the last municipal election. The petition needed 172 signatures from registered voters who live in the city, and it had 295.