1-1  By:  Armbrister                                       S.B. No. 1693
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed May 1, 1995; May 2, 1995, read first
    1-3  time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources; May 5, 1995,
    1-4  reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 9, Nays 0;
    1-5  May 5, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to authorizing the division of the Gonzales County
    1-9  Underground Water Conservation District into precincts, authorizing
   1-10  the board to make expenditures, and validating certain actions.
   1-11        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-12        SECTION 1.  DEFINITIONS.  In this Act:
   1-13              (1)  "Board" means the board of directors of the
   1-14  Gonzales County Underground Water Conservation District.
   1-15              (2)  "District" means the Gonzales County Underground
   1-16  Water Conservation District.
   1-17        SECTION 2.  DIVISION OF DISTRICT INTO SINGLE-MEMBER
   1-18  PRECINCTS.  The board may from time to time divide the district
   1-19  into five precincts of substantially equal population for the
   1-20  purpose of electing directors.  Notwithstanding Section 52.102,
   1-21  Water Code, the board may divide territory contained in a municipal
   1-22  corporation within the district into as many precincts as necessary
   1-23  to obtain precincts of substantially equal population.
   1-24        SECTION 3.  AUTHORITY OF BOARD COMPOSED OF TEMPORARY
   1-25  DIRECTORS.  Temporary directors serving on the board on the
   1-26  effective date of this Act may authorize and make, through board
   1-27  action, all expenditures necessary to conduct district business
   1-28  until permanent directors are elected and qualify for office.
   1-29        SECTION 4.  VALIDATION.  The creation of the district and all
   1-30  resolutions, orders, and other acts or attempted acts of the board,
   1-31  including the board composed of temporary directors, are validated
   1-32  in all respects.  The creation of the district and all resolutions,
   1-33  orders, and other acts or attempted acts of the board, including
   1-34  the board composed of temporary directors, are valid as though they
   1-35  originally had been legally authorized or accomplished.
   1-36        SECTION 5.  EMERGENCY.  The importance of this legislation
   1-37  and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-38  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-39  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-40  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-41  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-42  passage, and it is so enacted.
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