By Uher H.B. No. 335
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the period for filing a petition for a place on the
1-3 ballot for the board of directors of the Sweeny Hospital District.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 3, Chapter 135, Acts of the 58th
1-6 Legislature, Regular Session, 1963, is amended to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 3. Within ten (10) days after such election is held the
1-8 election judges shall convene and canvass the returns of the
1-9 election, and if a majority of the qualified property taxpaying
1-10 electors voting at said election voted in favor of the proposition,
1-11 they shall so find and declare the hospital district established
1-12 and created and O. K. Hitchcock, Earl Wells, Bobby W. Brown, George
1-13 Sparkman and Roy Walby shall be the directors of the district to
1-14 serve until the first Saturday in April following the creation and
1-15 establishment of the district at which time five (5) directors
1-16 shall be elected. The three (3) directors receiving the highest
1-17 vote at such first election shall serve for two (2) years, the
1-18 other two (2) directors shall serve for one (1) year. On the
1-19 effective date of this amendment, the board of directors shall
1-20 appoint two (2) new members to the board, one (1) to serve until
1-21 the first Saturday in April, 1974, and one (1) to serve until the
1-22 first Saturday in April, 1975. Thereafter, all directors shall
1-23 serve for a period of two (2) years and until their successor has
1-24 been duly elected or appointed and qualified. No person shall be
2-1 appointed or elected as a member of the board of directors of said
2-2 hospital district unless he is a resident thereof and unless at the
2-3 time of such election or appointment he shall be more than
2-4 twenty-one (21) years of age. Each member of the board of
2-5 directors shall qualify by executing the constitutional oath of
2-6 office and shall execute a good and sufficient bond for One
2-7 Thousand Dollars ($1,000) payable to said district conditioned upon
2-8 the faithful performance of his duties, and such oaths and bonds
2-9 shall be deposited with the depository bank of the district for
2-10 safekeeping.
2-11 The board of directors shall organize by electing one (1) of
2-12 their number as president and one (1) of their number as secretary.
2-13 Any four (4) members of the board of directors shall constitute a
2-14 quorum and a concurrence of four (4) shall be sufficient in all
2-15 matters pertaining to the business of the district. All vacancies
2-16 in the office of director shall be filled for the unexpired term by
2-17 appointment of the remainder of the board of directors. In the
2-18 event the number of directors shall be reduced to less than four
2-19 (4) for any reason, the remaining directors shall immediately call
2-20 a special election to fill said vacancies, and upon failure to do
2-21 so a district court may, upon application of any voter or taxpayer
2-22 of the district, issue a mandate requiring that such election be
2-23 ordered by the remaining directors.
2-24 A regular election of directors shall be held on the first
2-25 Saturday in May <April> of each year and notice of such election
2-26 shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the
2-27 county one (1) time at least ten (10) days prior to the date of
3-1 election. Any person desiring his name to be printed on the ballot
3-2 as a candidate for director shall file a petition, signed by not
3-3 less than twenty-five (25) qualified voters asking that such name
3-4 be printed on the ballot, with the secretary of the board of
3-5 directors of the district. Such petition shall be filed with such
3-6 secretary not later than 5 p.m. of the 45th day before <at least
3-7 twenty-five (25) days prior to> the date of election.
3-8 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
3-9 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-10 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-11 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-12 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
3-13 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
3-14 passage, and it is so enacted.