73R8868 JJT-F
          By Combs                                              H.B. No. 2830
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to authorizing the Travis County Water Control and
    1-3  Improvement District No. 17 to exclude certain territory.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  DEFINITIONS.  In this Act:
    1-6              (1)  "District" means the Travis County Water Control
    1-7  and Improvement District No. 17.
    1-8              (2)  "Board" means the board of directors of the
    1-9  district.
   1-10        SECTION 2.  EXCLUSION OF TERRITORY.  The board by order may
   1-11  exclude from the district the following described area:
   1-12  BEGINNING at the most northerly Northwest corner of Apache Shores
   1-13  First Installment, a subdivision found of record in Book 43, Page
   1-14  29, of the Plat Records of said County;
   1-15  THENCE S3008'W, 1069.44 feet along the western boundary of said
   1-16  subdivision to an ell corner thereof;
   1-17  THENCE N5705'W, 667.46 feet along the southerly North boundary of
   1-18  said subdivision to an ell corner thereof;
   1-19  THENCE S3008'W, passing the Southwest corner of said subdivision
   1-20  and the Northwest corner of Apache Shores Section Three, Amended
   1-21  found of record in Book 50, Page 81 of said Plat Records at 534.38
   1-22  feet and also passing the Southwest corner of said Section Three,
   1-23  Amended and the Northwest corner of Apache Shores Section Five
   1-24  found of record in Book 55, Page 41 of said Plat Records at 3629.19
    2-1  feet and continue a total distance of 4673.11 feet to an angle
    2-2  point in the West boundary line of said Section Five;
    2-3  THENCE southerly along said West boundary line the following three
    2-4  (3) courses:
    2-5  1)  S3010'W, 1204.08 feet to an angle point;
    2-6  2)  S3009'W, 791.12 feet to an angle point;
    2-7  3)  S3008'W, 336.40 feet to the Southwest corner of said Section
    2-8  Five:
    2-9  THENCE easterly along the South boundary line of said Section Five
   2-10  the following four (4) courses:
   2-11  1)  S6007'E, 111.15 feet to an angle point;
   2-12  2)  S6139'E, 192.31 feet to an angle point;
   2-13  3)  S6109'E, 451.14 feet to an angle point;
   2-14  4)  S6012'E, 156.30 feet to the point of intersection of said
   2-15  South line and the eastern boundary line of the aforesaid District
   2-16  No. 17 for the Southeast corner hereof;
   2-17  THENCE across the aforesaid sections of Apache Shores along the
   2-18  eastern boundary line of District No. 17, N3008'E, 8024.26 feet to
   2-19  the point of intersection of said eastern boundary line and the
   2-20  North line of Apache Shores First Installment for the Northeast
   2-21  corner hereof;
   2-22  THENCE N5952'W, 243.09 feet along said North line to the POINT OF
   2-23  BEGINNING of this described tract containing 151.67 acres of land.
   2-24        SECTION 3.  NOTICE TO TEXAS NATURAL RESOURCE CONSERVATION
   2-25  COMMISSION.  The board shall provide to the executive director of
   2-26  the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission a detailed
   2-27  description of the land excluded under this Act not later than 30
    3-1  days after the effective date of the order excluding the land.
    3-2        SECTION 4.  Debt Service.  The exclusion of territory under
    3-3  this Act does not affect, diminish, or impair the rights of the
    3-4  holders of any outstanding and unpaid bonds, warrants, or other
    3-5  obligations of the district or the obligation of the board annually
    3-6  to adjust the district's tax rate to provide sufficient tax
    3-7  revenues for debt service.
    3-8        SECTION 5.  Apportionment of District Indebtedness.  (a)  The
    3-9  board by order may release the excluded properties and improvements
   3-10  from the obligation to pay the pro rata share of the district's
   3-11  indebtedness.
   3-12        (b)  The district may resume taxation of the excluded
   3-13  properties and improvements for the excluded area's pro rata share
   3-14  of the district's remaining indebtedness for the bond series 1959,
   3-15  1980, and 1986.
   3-16        SECTION 6.  TRANSITION PROVISION.  The reference in Section 3
   3-17  of this Act to the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission
   3-18  means the Texas Water Commission until the name of the Texas Water
   3-19  Commission is changed to the Texas Natural Resource Conservation
   3-20  Commission as provided by Section 1.085, Chapter 3, Acts of the
   3-21  72nd Legislature, 1st Called Session, 1991.
   3-22        SECTION 7.  EMERGENCY.  The importance of this legislation
   3-23  and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   3-24  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   3-25  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   3-26  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   3-27  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    4-1  passage, and it is so enacted.