1-1  By:  Truan                                            S.B. No. 1632
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed March 29, 1995; April 4, 1995, read
    1-3  first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
    1-4  Relations; April 12, 1995, reported favorably by the following
    1-5  vote:  Yeas 9, Nays 0; April 12, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to the sale and exchange of lands by certain navigation
    1-9  districts.
   1-10        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-11        SECTION 1.  Section 1, Chapter 176, Acts of the 54th
   1-12  Legislature, 1955 (Article 8247f, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes),
   1-13  is amended to read as follows:
   1-14        Sec. 1.  The Governing Board of any navigation district in
   1-15  this State heretofore or hereafter created under the laws of this
   1-16  State and having within its limits a city containing two hundred
   1-17  and fifty thousand (250,000) <three hundred and
   1-18  seventy-five-thousand (375,000)> population or more according to
   1-19  the latest preceding or any future Federal Census shall have and
   1-20  there is hereby conferred the right, power and authority, when in
   1-21  the opinion of a majority of said Governing Board it is necessary,
   1-22  desirable or advantageous to the interest of  said navigation
   1-23  district so to do, to exchange lands with any other landowner, or,
   1-24  as an incident to the acquisition of lands for the uses and
   1-25  purposes of said navigation district, to make conveyance to another
   1-26  person, firm or corporation of lands owned and held by said
   1-27  navigation district the ownership and use of which was no longer
   1-28  necessary or desirable or the use of which lands was not as
   1-29  feasible or desirable for the public purposes of said navigation
   1-30  district as is and as will be the lands to be acquired by said
   1-31  navigation district.
   1-32        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-33  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-34  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-35  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-36  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-37  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-38  passage, and it is so enacted.
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