By: Lucio S.B. No. 914
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the appointment of the directors of the Valley Acres
1-2 Water District.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 3, Chapter 261, Acts of the 52nd
1-5 Legislature, 1951 (Article 8280-143, Vernon's Texas Civil
1-6 Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 3. The management and control of the District is hereby
1-8 vested in a board of directors which shall have all of the powers
1-9 and authority conferred and imposed upon Board of Directors of
1-10 Water Control and Improvement Districts organized under the
1-11 provisions of Chapter 51, Water Code <25, Acts of the Thirty-ninth
1-12 Legislature passed in 1925 and amendments thereto, as incorporated
1-13 in Title 128, Chapter 3A of Vernon's Civil Statutes of the State of
1-14 Texas and amendments thereto>. The Board of Directors shall be
1-15 composed of five (5) members who shall qualify to serve as
1-16 directors in the same manner as elected directors qualify under
1-17 Chapter 51, Water Code <have the same qualifications as Directors
1-18 of Water Control and Improvement Districts>. In the event, and to
1-19 the extent that any of the provisions of the general laws referred
1-20 to in this Section are in conflict with or inconsistent with any of
1-21 the provisions of this Act relating to the powers, authority and
1-22 duties of the Board of Directors and its members, the provisions of
1-23 this Act shall prevail. The commissioners of the Texas Water
1-24 Commission shall appoint the members of the Board of Directors to
2-1 staggered four-year terms. The commissioners of the Texas Water
2-2 Commission shall appoint an individual to fill any vacancy on the
2-3 Board of Directors. <The Board of Water Engineers of the State of
2-4 Texas is hereby authorized and empowered to appoint five (5)
2-5 persons qualified under the law to serve as directors of the
2-6 District until their successors shall have been duly elected and
2-7 shall have qualified. The first election of directors shall be
2-8 held on the second Tuesday in January, 1952, in accordance with the
2-9 provisions of Section 37 of Chapter 25, Acts of the Thirty-ninth
2-10 Legislature, as amended by Section 6 of Chapter 107 of the Acts of
2-11 the First Called Session of the Fortieth Legislature, as carried
2-12 forward in Article 7880--37 of Vernon's Civil Statutes of the State
2-13 of Texas, and laws amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto.>
2-14 SECTION 2. (a) The current elected members of the board of
2-15 directors of the Valley Acres Water District continue to serve as
2-16 board members until the date the members' terms expire.
2-17 (b) On the expiration of each current board member's term,
2-18 the commissioners of the Texas Water Commission, in accordance with
2-19 Section 3, Chapter 261, Acts of the 52nd Legislature, 1951 (Article
2-20 8280-143, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), as amended by this Act,
2-21 shall appoint a member to the board of directors of the Valley
2-22 Acres Water District to replace the member whose term expired.
2-23 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-25 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-26 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-27 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
3-1 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
3-2 passage, and it is so enacted.