By:  Truan                                            S.B. No. 1632
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        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.