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.