By: Shelley S.B. No. 891 73R6649 GCH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the creation of airport authorities by political 1-3 subdivisions; authorizing taxes and granting the power of eminent 1-4 domain. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. (a) The governing body of a municipality that is 1-7 located partly in a county having a population of more than 2.2 1-8 million, according to the most recent federal census, and that is 1-9 not the municipality of greatest population in the most populous 1-10 county in which it is located, may create an airport authority for 1-11 the construction, acquisition, or operation of an airport and 1-12 appropriate appurtenant facilities. The governing body may act 1-13 alone in creating an authority or jointly with the governing bodies 1-14 of other municipalities or counties. 1-15 (b) The governing body of the municipality shall appoint a 1-16 board of directors to govern and maintain the authority. 1-17 (c) An authority has all powers regarding airport facilities 1-18 as a metropolitan transit authority created under Chapter 141, Acts 1-19 of the 63rd Legislature, Regular Session, 1973 (Article 1118x, 1-20 Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), has regarding mass transit 1-21 facilities and has the power to levy and collect taxes, issue 1-22 bonds, and exercise the power of eminent domain. 1-23 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-4 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-5 passage, and it is so enacted.