1-1 By: Cook (Senate Sponsor - Lucio) H.B. No. 2688
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 21, 1997;
1-3 April 23, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Natural Resources; May 8, 1997, reported favorably by the following
1-5 vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 8, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 pertaining to the execution of documents on behalf of certain water
1-9 districts.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 49.054(c), Water Code, is amended to read
1-12 as follows:
1-13 (c) The president is the chief executive officer of the
1-14 district, presides at all meetings of the board, and shall execute
1-15 all documents on behalf of the district unless the board by
1-16 resolution authorizes the general manager or other employee of the
1-17 district to execute a document or documents on behalf of the
1-18 district. The vice-president shall act as president in case of the
1-19 absence or disability of the president. The secretary is
1-20 responsible for seeing that all records and books of the district
1-21 are properly kept and may [shall] attest the president's signature
1-22 on [all] documents.
1-23 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-25 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-26 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-27 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-28 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-29 passage, and it is so enacted.
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