1-1 By: Counts (Senate Sponsor - Montford) H.B. No. 2642 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 10, 1995; 1-3 April 11, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on 1-4 Natural Resources; April 28, 1995, reported favorably by the 1-5 following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; April 28, 1995, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to the administration, powers, duties, operation, and 1-9 financing of the Canadian River Municipal Water Authority. 1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-11 SECTION 1. Section 13(t), Chapter 243, Acts of the 53rd 1-12 Legislature, Regular Session, 1953 (Article 8280-154, Vernon's 1-13 Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows: 1-14 (t) To cooperate and to enter into contracts with cities, 1-15 persons, firms, corporations and public agencies for the purpose of 1-16 supplying and selling them surface, storm, flood, underground, and 1-17 other water for municipal, domestic, industrial, and other useful 1-18 purposes permitted by law, provided that cities and areas 1-19 constituting the District shall be accorded priority in the 1-20 allocation of the District's available surface, storm, flood, 1-21 underground, and other water, and the Board of Directors shall 1-22 prescribe rules to effectuate this provision. Any such contract 1-23 may be upon such terms and for such time as the parties may agree, 1-24 and it may provide that it shall continue in effect until the 1-25 District's bonds specified therein and refunding bonds issued in 1-26 lieu of such bonds are fully paid. The authority of each member 1-27 or other city to enter into any contract with the District for the 1-28 sale of water or other services or for any other purpose within the 1-29 powers, rights, privileges, and functions of the District is vested 1-30 exclusively in the governing body of each member or other city 1-31 notwithstanding any provision of any home rule charter or any local 1-32 ordinance of such member or other city, or of any other provision 1-33 of any other law placing any restriction, limitation, or 1-34 requirement on the authority of the governing body of any member or 1-35 other city to enter into any such contract. No provision of the 1-36 home rule charter or of any other ordinance of any member or other 1-37 city, and no provision of any other law in conflict herewith will 1-38 invalidate or impair, in whole or in part, the enforceability and 1-39 validity of any contract entered into by the District with any 1-40 member or other city pursuant to the powers, rights, and privileges 1-41 or functions of the district. In the event the District shall have 1-42 contracted with the United States Government or any of its agencies 1-43 for a source of water supply or for the furnishing of any 1-44 facilities necessary or useful to the District in carrying out its 1-45 purposes, any such contract entered into under authority hereof may 1-46 provide that it shall continue until the district has fully 1-47 discharged all obligations incurred by it under the terms of its 1-48 contract with the United States Government or its agencies. The 1-49 District is also authorized to purchase surface, storm, flood, 1-50 underground, and other water supply from any person, firm, 1-51 corporation or public agency, or from the United States Government 1-52 or any of its agencies. 1-53 SECTION 2. If any section, clause, or part of this Act 1-54 shall, for any reason, be held invalid, such invalidity shall not 1-55 affect the remaining portions of this Act, and it is hereby 1-56 declared to be the intention of this legislature to have passed 1-57 each section, sentence, clause, or part irrespective of the fact 1-58 that any other section, sentence, clause, or part may be declared 1-59 invalid. 1-60 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-61 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-62 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-63 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-64 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-65 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-66 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-67 * * * * *