By Jones of Lubbock H.B. No. 3547
75R10076 MI-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the powers of the White River Municipal Water District.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 9, Chapter 221, Acts of the 55th
1-5 Legislature, Regular Session, 1957, is amended to read as follows:
1-6 Sec. 9. The District is empowered to acquire land within or
1-7 without the boundaries of the District but not outside any County
1-8 in which the District is located, and to construct, lease or
1-9 otherwise acquire all works, plants and other facilities necessary
1-10 or useful for the purpose of diverting, further impounding or
1-11 storing water, processing such water and transporting it to Cities
1-12 and others for municipal, domestic, industrial and mining purposes.
1-13 Subject to the terms of any deed of trust issued by the District,
1-14 the District may sell, trade or otherwise dispose of any real or
1-15 personal property deemed by the Board of Directors not to be needed
1-16 for District purposes. The District may [is not authorized to]
1-17 develop or otherwise acquire underground sources of water.
1-18 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-23 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-24 passage, and it is so enacted.