By: Lucio S.B. No. 914
73R3145 MLR-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the appointment of the directors of the Valley Acres
1-3 Water District.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 3, Chapter 261, Acts of the 52nd
1-6 Legislature, Regular Session, 1951 (Article 8280-143, Vernon's
1-7 Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
1-8 Sec. 3. The management and control of the District is hereby
1-9 vested in a board of directors which shall have all of the powers
1-10 and authority conferred and imposed upon Board of Directors of
1-11 Water Control and Improvement Districts organized under the
1-12 provisions of Chapter 51, Water Code <25, Acts of the Thirty-ninth
1-13 Legislature passed in 1925 and amendments thereto, as incorporated
1-14 in Title 128, Chapter 3A of Vernon's Civil Statutes of the State of
1-15 Texas and amendments thereto>. The Board of Directors shall be
1-16 composed of five (5) members who shall qualify to serve as
1-17 directors in the same manner as elected directors qualify under
1-18 Chapter 51, Water Code <have the same qualifications as Directors
1-19 of Water Control and Improvement Districts>. In the event, and to
1-20 the extent that any of the provisions of the general laws referred
1-21 to in this Section are in conflict with or inconsistent with any of
1-22 the provisions of this Act relating to the powers, authority and
1-23 duties of the Board of Directors and its members, the provisions of
1-24 this Act shall prevail. The commissioners of the Texas Water
2-1 Commission shall appoint the members of the Board of Directors to
2-2 staggered four-year terms. The commissioners of the Texas Water
2-3 Commission shall appoint an individual to fill any vacancy on the
2-4 Board of Directors. <The Board of Water Engineers of the State of
2-5 Texas is hereby authorized and empowered to appoint five (5)
2-6 persons qualified under the law to serve as directors of the
2-7 District until their successors shall have been duly elected and
2-8 shall have qualified. The first election of directors shall be
2-9 held on the second Tuesday in January, 1952, in accordance with the
2-10 provisions of Section 37 of Chapter 25, Acts of the Thirty-ninth
2-11 Legislature, as amended by Section 6 of Chapter 107 of the Acts of
2-12 the First Called Session of the Fortieth Legislature, as carried
2-13 forward in Article 7880-37 of Vernon's Civil Statutes of the State
2-14 of Texas, and laws amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto.>
2-15 SECTION 2. (a) The current elected members of the board of
2-16 directors of the Valley Acres Water District continue to serve as
2-17 board members until the date the members' terms expire.
2-18 (b) On the expiration of each current board member's term,
2-19 the commissioners of the Texas Water Commission, in accordance with
2-20 Section 3, Chapter 261, Acts of the 52nd Legislature, Regular
2-21 Session, 1951 (Article 8280-143, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), as
2-22 amended by this Act, shall appoint a member to the board of
2-23 directors of the Valley Acres Water District to replace the member
2-24 whose term expired.
2-25 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-26 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-27 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
3-3 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
3-4 passage, and it is so enacted.