By: Patterson S.B. No. 92 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the authority of the Bayview Municipal Utility District 1-2 of Galveston County to install and assess for street lighting. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Chapter 245, Acts of the 58th Legislature, 1963 1-5 (Article 8280-287, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by 1-6 adding Section 2A to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 2A. The District may install, operate, and maintain 1-8 street lighting within a public utility easement or public 1-9 right-of-way inside the District's boundaries. The District may 1-10 assess the cost of installing, operating, and maintaining the 1-11 street lighting as an additional charge in the monthly billings of 1-12 the District's customers. This section does not authorize the 1-13 District to install, operate, or maintain street lighting on a 1-14 right-of-way that is part of the designated state highway system. 1-15 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 1-16 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.