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.  (a)  After voter approval, the District may:

 1-8                 (1)  install, operate, and maintain street lighting

 1-9     within a public utility easement or public right-of-way inside the

1-10     District's boundaries; and

1-11                 (2)  assess the cost of installing, operating, and

1-12     maintaining the street lighting as an additional charge in the

1-13     monthly billings of the District's customers.

1-14           (b)  This section does not authorize the District to install,

1-15     operate, or maintain street lighting on a right-of-way that is part

1-16     of the designated state highway system.

1-17           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-18           SECTION 3.  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.

                                                                 S.B. No. 92

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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House

               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 92 passed the Senate on

         February 26, 1997, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0; and

         that the Senate concurred in House amendment on April 23, 1997, by

         a viva-voce vote.

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                                                 Secretary of the Senate

               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 92 passed the House, with

         amendment, on April 18, 1997, by a non-record vote.

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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House

         Approved:

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                     Date

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                   Governor