S.B. No. 1632
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the sale and exchange of lands by certain navigation
1-2 districts.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 1, Chapter 176, Acts of the 54th
1-5 Legislature, 1955 (Article 8247f, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes),
1-6 is amended to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 1. The Governing Board of any navigation district in
1-8 this State heretofore or hereafter created under the laws of this
1-9 State and having within its limits a city containing two hundred
1-10 and fifty thousand (250,000) <three hundred and
1-11 seventy-five-thousand (375,000)> population or more according to
1-12 the latest preceding or any future Federal Census shall have and
1-13 there is hereby conferred the right, power and authority, when in
1-14 the opinion of a majority of said Governing Board it is necessary,
1-15 desirable or advantageous to the interest of said navigation
1-16 district so to do, to exchange lands with any other landowner, or,
1-17 as an incident to the acquisition of lands for the uses and
1-18 purposes of said navigation district, to make conveyance to another
1-19 person, firm or corporation of lands owned and held by said
1-20 navigation district the ownership and use of which was no longer
1-21 necessary or desirable or the use of which lands was not as
1-22 feasible or desirable for the public purposes of said navigation
1-23 district as is and as will be the lands to be acquired by said
2-1 navigation district.
2-2 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-3 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-4 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-5 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-6 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-7 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-8 passage, and it is so enacted.