By Patterson S.B. No. 92 75R2 MI-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the authority of the Bayview Municipal Utility District 1-3 of Galveston County to install and assess for street lighting. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Chapter 245, Acts of the 58th Legislature, 1-6 Regular Session, 1963 (Article 8280-287, Vernon's Texas Civil 1-7 Statutes), is amended by adding Section 2A to read as follows: 1-8 Sec. 2A. The District may install, operate, and maintain 1-9 street lighting within a public utility easement or public 1-10 right-of-way inside the District's boundaries. The District may 1-11 assess against owners of abutting property who will specially 1-12 benefit from the street lighting the cost of installing, operating, 1-13 and maintaining the street lighting. 1-14 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 1-15 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.