1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the election of the board of supervisors of the Clear
1-3 Creek Drainage District of Galveston County.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 3, Chapter 243, Acts of the 58th
1-6 Legislature, Regular Session, 1963 (Article 8280-285, Vernon's
1-7 Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
1-8 Sec. 3. (a) The management and control of the District is
1-9 hereby vested in a Board of five (5) Supervisors which shall have
1-10 all of the powers and authority and duties conferred and imposed
1-11 upon Boards of Supervisors of fresh water supply districts
1-12 organized under Chapter 53, Water Code, together with all
1-13 amendments thereof and additions thereto. Members of the Board of
1-14 Supervisors shall be elected and shall hold office for staggered
1-15 terms of four [two (2)] years. Position numbers shall be assigned
1-16 to each Supervisor's office, and each Supervisor shall be elected
1-17 by position. [The terms of the Supervisors elected to positions 1
1-18 and 2 shall expire in even-numbered years and the terms of the
1-19 Supervisors elected to positions 3, 4, and 5 shall expire in
1-20 odd-numbered years.] An election shall be held on the first
1-21 Saturday in May [April] in each even-numbered year to elect the
1-22 appropriate number of Supervisors, and the person running for each
1-23 position that receives the most votes for that position is elected
1-24 Supervisor. Supervisors shall take office at the first regular
2-1 meeting of the Board of Supervisors in May [April] after the
2-2 election.
2-3 (b) Except as provided by Subsection (c) of this section, if
2-4 a vacancy occurs on the Board of Supervisors, the remaining
2-5 Supervisors shall make an appointment to fill the unexpired term.
2-6 (c) If a vacancy occurs on or before the 65th day before the
2-7 general election for Supervisors held in the next-to-last
2-8 even-numbered year of a term of office:
2-9 (1) a person appointed under Subsection (b) serves
2-10 only until the next general election for Supervisors; and
2-11 (2) the remainder of the unexpired term shall be
2-12 filled at an election held at the next general election for
2-13 Supervisors. [At the election held on April 7, 1979, a Supervisor
2-14 shall be elected from each of the five (5) positions, and the
2-15 persons elected to positions 1 and 2 shall serve until the first
2-16 regular meeting of the Board of Supervisors in 1980, and the
2-17 persons elected to positions 3, 4, and 5 shall serve until the
2-18 first regular meeting of the Board of Supervisors in 1981. No
2-19 person may be elected to serve more than two consecutive two-year
2-20 terms as a member of the Board of Supervisors.]
2-21 SECTION 2. Notwithstanding Section 50(b), Chapter 715, Acts
2-22 of the 74th Legislature, Regular Session, 1995, supervisors serving
2-23 on the board of the Clear Creek Drainage District of Galveston
2-24 County on the effective date of this Act serve terms as follows:
2-25 (1) a supervisor elected in 1995, or appointed to fill
2-26 an unexpired term for which the election was conducted in 1995,
2-27 serves until the supervisors elected on the first Saturday of May,
3-1 1998, take office; and
3-2 (2) a supervisor elected in 1996, or appointed to fill
3-3 an unexpired term for which the election was conducted in 1996,
3-4 serves until the supervisors elected on the first Saturday of May,
3-5 2000, take office.
3-6 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
3-7 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-8 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-9 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-10 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
3-11 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
3-12 passage, and it is so enacted.
_______________________________ _______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 3586 was passed by the House on May
10, 1997, by the following vote: Yeas 140, Nays 0, 2 present, not
voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 3586 was passed by the Senate on May
26, 1997, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor