By Patterson                                            S.B. No. 92

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                                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.