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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