By Counts H.B. No. 2642
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the administration, powers, duties, operation, and
1-3 financing of the Canadian River Municipal Water Authority.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 13(t), Chapter 243, Acts of the 53rd
1-6 Legislature, Regular Session, 1953 (Article 8280-154, Vernon's
1-7 Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
1-8 (t) To cooperate and to enter into contracts with cities,
1-9 persons, firms, corporations and public agencies for the purpose of
1-10 supplying and selling them surface, storm, flood, underground, and
1-11 other water for municipal, domestic, industrial, and other useful
1-12 purposes permitted by law, provided that cities and areas
1-13 constituting the District shall be accorded priority in the
1-14 allocation of the District's available surface, storm, flood,
1-15 underground, and other water, and the Board of Directors shall
1-16 prescribe rules to effectuate this provision. Any such contract
1-17 may be upon such terms and for such time as the parties may agree,
1-18 and it may provide that it shall continue in effect until the
1-19 District's bonds specified therein and refunding bonds issued in
1-20 lieu of such bonds are fully paid. The authority of each member
1-21 or other city to enter into any contract with the District for the
1-22 sale of water or other services, or for any other purpose within
1-23 the powers, rights, privileges, and functions of the District is
2-1 vested exclusively in the governing body of each member or other
2-2 city notwithstanding any provisions of any home rule charter or any
2-3 local ordinance of such member or other city, or of any other
2-4 provision of any other law placing any restriction, limitation, or
2-5 requirement on the authority of the governing body of any member or
2-6 other city to enter into any such contract. No provision of the
2-7 home rule charter or of any other ordinance of any member or other
2-8 city, and no provision of any other law in conflict herewith will
2-9 invalidate or impair, in whole or in part, the enforceability and
2-10 validity of any contract entered into by the District with any
2-11 member or other city pursuant to the powers, rights, and privileges
2-12 or functions of the district. In the event the District shall have
2-13 contracted with the United States Government or any of its agencies
2-14 for a source of water supply or for the furnishing of any
2-15 facilities necessary or useful to the District in carrying out its
2-16 purposes, any such contract entered into under authority hereof may
2-17 provide that it shall continue until the district has fully
2-18 discharged all obligations incurred by it under the terms of its
2-19 contract with the United States Government or its agencies. The
2-20 District is also authorized to purchase surface, storm, flood,
2-21 underground, and other water supply from any person, firm,
2-22 corporation, or public agency, or from the United States Government
2-23 or any of its agencies.
2-24 SECTION 2. SEVERABILITY. If any section, clause, or part of
2-25 this Act shall, for any reason, be held invalid, such invalidity
3-1 shall not affect the remaining portions of the Act, and it is
3-2 hereby declared to be the intention of this legislature to have
3-3 passed each section, sentence, clause, or part irrespective of the
3-4 fact that any other section, sentence, clause or part may be
3-5 declared invalid.
3-6 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
3-7 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-8 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-9 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-10 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
3-11 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
3-12 passage, and it is so enacted.