By: Harris of Tarrant, Nelson S.B. No. 1485
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the method of dissolution for certain municipal utility
1-2 districts.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 14, Chapter 1030, Acts of the 70th
1-5 Legislature, Regular Session, 1987, is amended to read as follows:
1-6 Sec. 14. Dissolution of District. The district may be
1-7 dissolved as provided by Section 43.074, Local Government Code
1-8 <Notwithstanding Chapter 128, Acts of the 50th Legislature, Regular
1-9 Session, 1947 (Article 1182c-1, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), or
1-10 any other general law, the district may be dissolved on approval of
1-11 a two-thirds vote of the governing body of the town of Westlake, a
1-12 two-thirds vote of the incumbent members of the board, and a
1-13 two-thirds vote of the incumbent members of the board of any other
1-14 districts that the district has contracted for the receipt or
1-15 provision of regional or area wide water supply, wastewater
1-16 disposal service, or any other service contract or agreement for a
1-17 term in excess of 20 years>.
1-18 SECTION 2. Section 14, Chapter 1031, Acts of the 70th
1-19 Legislature, Regular Session, 1987, is amended to read as follows:
1-20 Sec. 14. Dissolution of District. The district may be
1-21 dissolved as provided by Section 43.074, Local Government Code
1-22 <Notwithstanding Chapter 128, Acts of the 50th Legislature, Regular
1-23 Session, 1947 (Article 1182c-1, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), or
1-24 any other general law, the district may be dissolved on approval of
2-1 a two-thirds vote of the governing body of the town of Westlake, a
2-2 two-thirds vote of the incumbent members of the board, and a
2-3 two-thirds vote of the incumbent members of the board of any other
2-4 districts that the district has contracted for the receipt or
2-5 provision of regional or area wide water supply, wastewater
2-6 disposal service, or any other service contract or agreement for a
2-7 term in excess of 20 years>.
2-8 SECTION 3. Section 14, Chapter 1032, Acts of the 70th
2-9 Legislature, Regular Session, 1987, is amended to read as follows:
2-10 Sec. 14. Dissolution of District. The district may be
2-11 dissolved as provided by Section 43.074, Local Government Code
2-12 <Notwithstanding Chapter 128, Acts of the 50th Legislature, Regular
2-13 Session, 1947 (Article 1182c-1, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), or
2-14 any other general law, the district may be dissolved on approval of
2-15 a two-thirds vote of the governing body of the town of Westlake, a
2-16 two-thirds vote of the incumbent members of the board, and the
2-17 two-thirds vote of the incumbent members of the board of any other
2-18 districts that the district has contracted for the receipt or
2-19 provision of regional or areawide water supply, wastewater disposal
2-20 service, or any other service contract or agreement for a term in
2-21 excess of 20 years>.
2-22 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-25 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-26 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-27 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
3-1 passage, and it is so enacted.