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.