1-1           By:  Patterson                                    S.B. No. 92

 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed November 13, 1996; January 14, 1997,

 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental

 1-4     Relations; February 13, 1997, reported adversely, with favorable

 1-5     Committee Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 11, Nays 0;

 1-6     February 13, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-7     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 92                  By:  Moncrief

 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-9                                   AN ACT

1-10     relating to the authority of the Bayview Municipal Utility District

1-11     of Galveston County to install and assess for street lighting.

1-12           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-13           SECTION 1.  Chapter 245, Acts of the 58th Legislature, 1963

1-14     (Article 8280-287, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by

1-15     adding Section 2A to read as follows:

1-16           Sec. 2A.  The District may install, operate, and maintain

1-17     street lighting within a public utility easement or public

1-18     right-of-way inside the District's boundaries.  The District may

1-19     assess the cost of installing, operating, and maintaining the

1-20     street lighting as an additional charge in the monthly billings of

1-21     the District's customers.  This section does not authorize the

1-22     District to install, operate, or maintain street lighting on a

1-23     right-of-way that is part of the designated state highway system.

1-24           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-25           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-26     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-27     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-28     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-29     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.

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