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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