By: Barrientos S.B. No. 1152 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to adding land by Petition of Landowner. 1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-3 SECTION 1. Section 54.711 of the Texas Water Code is amended 1-4 to read as follows: 1-5 (a) The owner of owners of land contiguous to the district 1-6 or otherwise may file with the board a petition requesting that 1-7 there be included in the district the land described in the 1-8 petition by metes and bounds or by lot and block number if there is 1-9 a recorded plat of the area to be included in the District. 1-10 (b) The provision of Section 54.016 Subsection (a) through 1-11 (h) of this chapter and any terms and provisions regarding 1-12 annexation of additional lands to the district in a city's written 1-13 consent to creation and inclusion of land within a district 1-14 notwithstanding, a district may annex land according to the method 1-15 described in Sections 54.711 - 54.715 of this code when the 1-16 following conditions exist: 1-17 (1) none of the land is within the corporate limits of 1-18 the city; 1-19 (2) the service extended by the district to the 1-20 annexed land provides for the integration and extension of the 1-21 existing water, wastewater, drainage and park systems in a more 1-22 compatible manner than would otherwise be established if the land 1-23 were not annexed and served by the district; 2-1 (3) the district's economic condition is improved by 2-2 the development of the annexed area; 2-3 (4) the district has sufficient water, wastewater and 2-4 drainage facilities to serve the annexed area without increasing 2-5 its total bonding authority; 2-6 (5) the district has a certified assessed value in 2-7 excess of $150.000,000 and has at least 25% of its initial voter 2-8 authorized bonds unissued; 2-9 (6) the district is greater than 750 acres in area and 2-10 the land to be annexed is contiguous to the district; and 2-11 (7) the petitioners and the district have entered into 2-12 an annexation and reimbursement agreement. 2-13 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993. 2-14 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.