By Kuempel H.B. No. 2509
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the operation of a park district in a county with
1-3 frontage on the Guadalupe and Comal rivers.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 324.042, Local Government Code, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 324.042. Oath and Bond. (a) Within <15> 30 days after
1-8 the date a board member is appointed, the member must qualify by
1-9 taking the official oath and by filing a good and sufficient bond
1-10 with the county clerk.
1-11 (b) The bond must be:
1-12 (1) payable to the order of the commissioners court;
1-13 (2) payable in an amount prescribed by the
1-14 commissioners court of $5,000 or more; and
1-15 (3) conditioned that the board member will faithfully
1-16 perform the duties of a board member, including the proper handling
1-17 of all money that comes into the board member's hands in the board
1-18 member's official capacity.
1-19 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.