By: Yost H.B. No. 865
73R4473 MLR-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the dissolution of inactive water districts.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. LEGISLATIVE FINDINGS. The legislature finds that
1-5 the water districts named in Sections 2 and 3 of this Act, created
1-6 both by special act of the legislature and by general law, have
1-7 been inactive for five consecutive years, are no longer performing
1-8 any of the functions for which they were created, have no
1-9 outstanding bonded or other indebtedness, and should be dissolved.
1-10 SECTION 2. DISSOLUTION OF SPECIAL LAW DISTRICTS. The
1-11 following districts created by special act of the legislature are
1-12 dissolved:
1-13 (1) Kerr County (Center Point) Water Control and
1-14 Improvement District, created by Chapter 518, Acts of the 57th
1-15 Legislature, Regular Session, 1961;
1-16 (2) Real-Edwards Conservation and Reclamation
1-17 District, created by Chapter 341, Acts of the 56th Legislature,
1-18 Regular Session, 1959;
1-19 (3) San Simon Municipal Utility District, created by
1-20 Chapter 540, Acts of the 63rd Legislature, Regular Session, 1973;
1-21 (4) St. Paul Water Improvement, Road, and Utility
1-22 District No. 1, created by Chapter 422, Acts of the 70th
1-23 Legislature, Regular Session, 1987;
1-24 (5) Two Mile Creek Conservation and Reclamation
2-1 District of Calhoun County, created by Chapter 510, Acts of the
2-2 54th Legislature, Regular Session, 1955; and
2-3 (6) Williamson County Water, Sewer, Irrigation, and
2-4 Drainage District No. 1, created by Chapter 618, Acts of the 70th
2-5 Legislature, Regular Session, 1987.
2-6 SECTION 3. DISSOLUTION OF GENERAL LAW DISTRICTS. The
2-7 following districts created under general law are dissolved:
2-8 (1) Bastrop County Municipal Utility District No. 1,
2-9 created by an order of the Texas Water Commission, dated July 13,
2-10 1988;
2-11 (2) Chicota Water Control and Improvement District of
2-12 Lamar County, created by an order of the Commissioners Court of
2-13 Lamar County, dated March 22, 1963;
2-14 (3) Dickens County Water Control and Improvement
2-15 District No. 2, created by an order of the Commissioners Court of
2-16 Dickens County, dated December 10, 1973;
2-17 (4) Fort Bend County Levee Improvement District No. 3,
2-18 created by an order of the Commissioners Court of Fort Bend County,
2-19 dated January 27, 1975;
2-20 (5) Hopkins County Levee Improvement District No. 1,
2-21 created by an order of the Commissioners Court of Hopkins County,
2-22 dated September 7, 1918;
2-23 (6) Kaufman County Levee Improvement District No. 13,
2-24 created by an order of the Commissioners Court of Kaufman County,
2-25 dated June 8, 1925;
2-26 (7) Kent Creek Water Control and Improvement District
2-27 No. 1, created by an order of the Commissioners Court of Briscoe
3-1 County, dated May 12, 1958;
3-2 (8) La Gloria Water Control and Improvement District,
3-3 created by an order of the Commissioners Court of Cameron County,
3-4 dated May 12, 1986;
3-5 (9) Lake Village Utility District, created by an order
3-6 of the Texas Water Commission, dated September 12, 1973;
3-7 (10) Lamar County Levee Improvement District No. 3,
3-8 created by an order of the Commissioners Court of Lamar County,
3-9 dated April 10, 1928;
3-10 (11) Liberty County Water Control and Improvement
3-11 District No. 8, created by an order of the Commissioners Court of
3-12 Liberty County, dated July 14, 1975;
3-13 (12) Lost Valley Ranch Municipal Utility District,
3-14 created by an order of the Texas Water Commission, dated August 30,
3-15 1973;
3-16 (13) Mills County Fresh Water Supply District No. 1,
3-17 created by an order of the Commissioners Court of Mills County,
3-18 dated June 13, 1960;
3-19 (14) Montgomery County Municipal Utility District No.
3-20 14, created by an order of the Texas Water Commission, dated March
3-21 21, 1973;
3-22 (15) Navarro County Levee Improvement District No. 1,
3-23 created by an order of the Commissioners Court of Navarro County,
3-24 dated October 9, 1917;
3-25 (16) Navarro County Levee Improvement District No. 8,
3-26 created by an order of the Commissioners Court of Navarro County,
3-27 dated August 11, 1919;
4-1 (17) North Bosque Water Control and Improvement
4-2 District, created by an order of the Texas Water Commission, dated
4-3 September 10, 1956;
4-4 (18) Pecan Park Municipal Utility District, created by
4-5 an order of the Texas Water Commission, dated March 9, 1982;
4-6 (19) Upper Sabine River Watershed, created by an order
4-7 of the Commissioners Court of Hunt County, dated October 17, 1956;
4-8 and
4-9 (20) Victoria County Drainage District No. 1, created
4-10 by an order of the Commissioners Court of Victoria County, dated
4-11 February 18, 1913.
4-12 SECTION 4. ASSETS. All assets of the districts dissolved by
4-13 this Act shall escheat to the state, and the state treasurer shall
4-14 dispose of the assets in the manner provided by Chapter 72,
4-15 Property Code.
4-16 SECTION 5. EMERGENCY. The importance of this legislation
4-17 and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
4-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
4-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
4-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
4-21 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
4-22 passage, and it is so enacted.