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.
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