73R4879 CAG-D By Maxey H.B. No. 1039 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the abolition of the office of elected county public 1-3 weigher. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 13, Agriculture Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Section 13.2535 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 13.2535. LOCAL OPTION ELECTION TO ABOLISH OFFICE. (a) 1-8 The office of elected county public weigher is abolished in a 1-9 county if the abolition is approved by a majority of the votes 1-10 received at an election ordered under this section. The 1-11 commissioners court of the county shall order the election in the 1-12 county if the court by order proposes that the office of elected 1-13 county public weigher be abolished. The commissioners court shall 1-14 order the election to be held on the next authorized election date 1-15 that occurs after the 45th day after the date of the court order 1-16 proposing abolition of the office. 1-17 (b) The commissioners court shall order the ballot for the 1-18 election to be printed to provide for voting for or against the 1-19 proposition: "Abolishing the office of elected county public 1-20 weigher." 1-21 (c) The abolition of the office takes effect on the January 1-22 1 following the date of the election. After the abolition of the 1-23 office, the commissioners court shall transfer to the department 1-24 the records of the abolished office. 2-1 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-2 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-3 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-4 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-5 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-6 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-7 passage, and it is so enacted.