By: Martin H.B. No. 2177
73R2720 MLR-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the directors of the Gulf Coast Water Authority.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Sections 5 and 5(a), Chapter 712, Acts of the
1-5 59th Legislature, Regular Session, 1965 (Article 8280-339, Vernon's
1-6 Texas Civil Statutes), are amended to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 5. The management and control of the District is hereby
1-8 vested in a Board of seven (7) directors. <Upon the effective date
1-9 of this Act, the following named persons shall be and constitute
1-10 the Board of Directors of said District:>
1-11 <Position 1: Arthur Alpert>
1-12 <Position 2: Alvin Kelso>
1-13 <Position 3: A. R. Anderson>
1-14 <Position 4: W. R. Nisbet>
1-15 <Position 5: C. J. Holgrave>
1-16 <Position 6: Charles Kilgore>
1-17 <Position 7: Gaddis Wittjen>
1-18 <who shall serve until May 1, 1967, and shall meet and organize as
1-19 soon as practicable after the effective date of this Act, and shall
1-20 file their official bonds and subscribe to the Constitutional Oath
1-21 of office.> Vacancies on the Board of Directors, whether by death,
1-22 resignation or termination of the term of office, shall be filled
1-23 by appointment by the Commissioners Court of Galveston County. All
1-24 terms of office shall be for a period of three (3) <two (2)> years.
2-1 Terms shall be staggered so that the terms of three (3) directors
2-2 expire one year and the terms of two (2) directors expire in each
2-3 of the two following years <except that the first term of office
2-4 after May 1, 1967, for Positions 2, 4 and 6 shall be for a term of
2-5 one (1) year>. Three (3) of the members appointed by the
2-6 Commissioners Court shall be registered professional engineers
2-7 under the laws of Texas.
2-8 Sec. 5(a). One (1) director <Three (3) of the directors> of
2-9 the District shall be appointed by the Commissioners Court of
2-10 Galveston County upon the recommendation of the City Council of the
2-11 City of Galveston and one (1) director of the District shall be
2-12 appointed by the Commissioners Court of Galveston County upon the
2-13 recommendation of the City Council of the City of Texas City. The
2-14 remaining five (5) directors shall be appointed by the
2-15 Commissioners Court of Galveston County upon the recommendation of
2-16 advisory boards appointed by the Gulf Coast Water Authority with
2-17 three of those directors appointed on the recommendation of the
2-18 Municipal Advisory Board and two on the recommendation of the
2-19 Industrial Advisory Board.
2-20 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
2-21 SECTION 3. (a) To succeed the directors of the Gulf Coast
2-22 Water Authority whose terms expire in 1994, the Galveston County
2-23 Commissioners Court shall appoint three directors to serve terms
2-24 expiring May 1, 1997.
2-25 (b) To succeed the directors of the Gulf Coast Water
2-26 Authority whose terms expire in 1995, the Galveston County
2-27 Commissioners Court shall appoint two directors to serve terms
3-1 expiring May 1, 1998, and two directors to serve terms expiring May
3-2 1, 1999.
3-3 (c) Subsequent appointees serve three-year terms.
3-4 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
3-5 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-6 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-7 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-8 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.