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Yes. In 1997, Governor George W. Bush signed into law a bill that amended the Texas Administrative Code. Title 1, Part 4, Chapter 81, Subchapter B, rule 35 says:(a) A person who meets the eligibility requirements of a voter under the Texas Election Code, Chapter 101, but who will be on a space flight during the early-voting period and on election day, may vote under this chapter. In order to vote by this method, the voter must apply by a Federal Postcard Application ("FPCA") and meet the requisite deadlines under state law. The FPCA may be submitted by fax or other electronic means.(b) The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ("NASA") shall submit in writing to the Secretary of State a method of transmitting and receiving a secret ballot for persons on a space flight during an election period. The Secretary of State shall approve, deny, or request further information from NASA on the proposed method of transmission.(c) Proposed changes to an approved ballot transmission method shall be submitted in writing to the Secretary of State for approval.In 1996, NASA Astronaut John Blaha was aboard the Russian space station Mir during the election. He was not able to exercise his right to vote. The issue was raised to the local state representatives and the bill was in place a year later.If an astronaut is registered to vote and will be in space during the election period, the Harris, Brazoria, or Galveston county clerk (whichever county the astronaut resides) will send an encrypted Adobe Acrobat PDF copy of the ballot to NASA. NASA will send it up the astronaut. The astronaut will fill it in and send it back down (still encrypted) and it will be sent to the county voting officer, who will be able to open the ballot and translate the selections to an actual ballot.

They are legal!The Penny Collector website, on their FAQ page, discusses the legality:FAQ“United States (YES): The United States Codes under Title 18, Chapter 17, and Section 331, "prohibits the mutilation, diminution and falsification of United States coinage." However, it has been the opinion of some individual officers at the Treasury Department, though without any indication of approval, the foregoing statute does not prohibit the mutilation of coins if done without fraudulent intent or if the mutilated coins are not used fraudulently.”It’s pretty clear that “penny squishes,” as our family calls them, or elongated pennies, as coin collectors call them, are not in any way fradulent.The prohibition against mutilation or diminution dates back to the time when circulating coinage included gold and silver coins. People would sometimes shave the edges to get a small amount of silver or gold, which they would save up and then sell; this is why silver coins have reeded edges— to foil coin-shavers.Reeded edge of coin.Since an elongated penny is usually a memento or souvenir, and the owner of the penny has no intention of trying to spend it, the penny becomes sort of an “uncoin.”I have never heard of anyone getting into trouble for owning an elongated penny or making one in a machine. If there were issues of legality, the Treasury would go after the makers of the machines, not the people who collect the pennies.(It’s worth noting that there is an elongated penny machine in the White House Visitors Center and at some of the Smithsonian museums. I don’t think those machines would be there if making elongated pennies were illegal!)http://209.221.138.252/Details.aspx?location=274535

From your description, I assume the city limit runs down the centerline of the street.In most states, police officers retain their police powers throughout the state. Therefore, an officer from Town A could act as a police officer in Town B, if he needed to do so.Whether each officer could write traffic citations outside the city limits would also depend on whether they issued citations under the city’s municipal code, or under state law. In the city where I worked as a police officer, most of our misdemeanor arrests were charged under the city’s municipal code, which were usually mirrors of a corresponding state law. This was purely a revenue-generating procedure. If we charged an offense under state law (the Nevada Revised Statutes), the case was heard in Justice or District Court, and any fines were split between the county and state. Fines collected by the municipal court went almost 100% to the city’s general fund. The exception was the portion/surcharge of a fine that was mandated for various purposes, such as law enforcement training, judicial education, victim/witness relief, etc.The municipal code had no effect outside the city limits. If I wanted to charge someone for an offense that had taken place outside the city limits, I would have to charge it under state law. This was rarely done, but would have been entirely lawful during most of the time I worked there.There would have been an exception for two years (1983–1985, I think) when one of our administrators went to the state legislature to testify in favor of a law that would explicitly give peace officers authority to make arrests outside of the governmental boundaries where they were employed. This was brought about when two of our cops were off duty in a pizza parlor in a neighboring city, and attempted to intervene in a fight. They charged the combatants with Obstructing and Resisting a Peace Officer, and the defendants argued in court that the cops weren’t peace officers outside of the city limits. The problem is that the administrator got his testimony exactly backwards, and for two years we were officially limited to charging crimes only when they had taken place within the city limits. The law was amended to the original intent in the following legislative session.