1-1 By: Patterson S.B. No. 892
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 2, 1995; March 6, 1995, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
1-4 Relations; March 30, 1995, reported favorably by the following
1-5 vote: Yeas 11, Nays 0; March 30, 1995, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the sale of certain park land by certain
1-9 municipalities.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 253.001, Local Government Code, is
1-12 amended by amending Subsection (e) and by adding Subsection (g) to
1-13 read as follows:
1-14 (e) Subsection (b) does not apply to a conveyance of park
1-15 land that:
1-16 (1) is owned by a home-rule municipality with a
1-17 population of less than 80,000 and that is located in a county
1-18 bordering the Gulf of Mexico <115,000>;
1-19 (2) is one acre or less;
1-20 (3) is part of a park that is 100 <600> acres or less;
1-21 (4) is sold or is conveyed as a sale to the owner of
1-22 <part of an exchange for property> adjoining property <the park>;
1-23 and
1-24 (5) is conveyed pursuant to a resolution or an
1-25 ordinance that:
1-26 (A) is adopted under this section;
1-27 (B) requires the sale to be with an owner of
1-28 adjoining property for fair market value as determined by an
1-29 independent appraisal obtained by the municipality; and
1-30 (C) has an effective date before December 31,
1-31 1995 <November 1, 1989>.
1-32 (g) A sale made under Subsection (e) is exempt from the
1-33 notice and bidding requirements in Chapter 272.
1-34 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-35 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-36 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-37 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-38 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-39 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-40 passage, and it is so enacted.
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