By:  Montford                                         S.B. No. 1254
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the administration, powers, duties, operation, and
    1-2  financing of the Canadian River Municipal Water Authority.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 13, Chapter 243, Acts of the 53rd
    1-5  Legislature, Regular Session, 1953 (Article 8280-154, Sec. 13(t),
    1-6  Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
    1-7        (t)  To cooperate and to enter into contracts with cities,
    1-8  persons, firms, corporations and public agencies for the purpose of
    1-9  supplying and selling them surface, storm, flood, underground, and
   1-10  other water for municipal, domestic, industrial, and other useful
   1-11  purposes permitted by law, provided that cities and areas
   1-12  constituting the District shall be accorded priority in the
   1-13  allocation of the District's available surface, storm, flood,
   1-14  underground, and other water, and the Board of Directors shall
   1-15  prescribe rules to effectuate this provision.  Any such contract
   1-16  may be upon such terms and for such time as the parties may agree,
   1-17  and it may provide that it shall continue in effect until the
   1-18  District's bonds specified therein and refunding bonds issued in
   1-19  lieu of such bonds are fully paid.  The authority of each member or
   1-20  other city to enter into any contract with the District for the
   1-21  sale of water or other services, or for any other purpose within
   1-22  the powers, rights, privileges, and functions of the District is
   1-23  vested exclusively in the governing body of each member or other
    2-1  city notwithstanding any provision of any home rule charter or of
    2-2  any local ordinance of such member or other city, or of any
    2-3  provision of other law placing any restriction, limitation, or
    2-4  requirement on the authority of the governing body of any member or
    2-5  other city to enter into any such contract.  No provision of the
    2-6  home rule charter or of any other ordinance of any member or other
    2-7  city, and no provision of any other law in conflict herewith, shall
    2-8  invalidate or impair, in whole or in part, the enforceability and
    2-9  validity of any contract entered into by the District with any
   2-10  member or other city pursuant to the powers, rights, privileges,
   2-11  and functions of the District.  In the event the District shall
   2-12  have contracted with the United States Government or any of its
   2-13  agencies for a source of water supply or for the furnishing of any
   2-14  facilities necessary or useful to the District in carrying out its
   2-15  purposes, any such contract entered into under authority hereof may
   2-16  provide that it shall continue until the District has fully
   2-17  discharged all obligations incurred by it under the terms of its
   2-18  contract with the United States Government or its agencies.  The
   2-19  District is also authorized to purchase surface, storm, flood,
   2-20  underground, and other water supply from any person, firm,
   2-21  corporation, or public agency, or from the United States Government
   2-22  or any of its agencies.
   2-23        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-24  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-25  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    3-1  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    3-2  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    3-3  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    3-4  passage, and it is so enacted.