By: Duncan S.B. No. 451 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to municipal perpetual trust funds for cemeteries. 1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-3 SECTION 1. Section 713.008, Health and Safety Code, is 1-4 amended to read as follows: 1-5 Sec. 713.008. TERMINATION OF MUNICIPAL PERPETUAL TRUST FUND 1-6 BY CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES. (a) The governing body of a 1-7 municipality in a county with a population of at least 122,000 but 1-8 not more than 128,000 may abolish the municipality's perpetual 1-9 trust fund for a cemetery and use the fund, including both 1-10 principal and interest, for permanent improvements to the cemetery. 1-11 (b) The governing body of a municipality with a population 1-12 of at least 185,000 but not more than 250,000, on the sale, 1-13 conveyance, transfer, or lease of a municipal cemetery, may abolish 1-14 or assign to a third party the municipality's perpetual trust fund 1-15 for the cemetery. 1-16 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 1-17 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.