By: Wentworth S.B. No. 1558 Line and page numbers may not match official copy. Bill not drafted by TLC or Senate E&E. A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to adding land to a defined area within a water control 1-2 and improvement district by petition of landowner. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subchapter L, Chapter 51, Water Code, is amended 1-5 by adding Section 51.530a to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 51.530a. (a) The owner of land may file with the board 1-7 a petition requesting that the land described by metes and bounds 1-8 in the petition, whether contiquous or not to the defined area, be 1-9 included within a defined area previously established pursuant to 1-10 Section 51.518 of this Code. 1-11 (b) If the defined area has bonds, notes, or other 1-12 obligations outstanding or bonds payable in whole or in part from 1-13 taxes that have been voted but are unissued for the defined area, 1-14 the board may require the petitioner or petitioners to assume their 1-15 share of the outstanding bonds, notes, or other obligations and the 1-16 voted but unissued tax bonds of the defined area and authorize the 1-17 board to levy a tax on their property in each year in which any of 1-18 the bonds, notes, or other obligations payable in whole or in part 1-19 from taxation on the defined area are outstanding to pay their 1-20 share of the indebtedness. 1-21 (c) A petition of the landowner to add land to the defined 2-1 area shall be signed and executed in the manner provided by law for 2-2 the conveyance of real estate. 2-3 (d) The board shall hear and consider the petition and may 2-4 add to the defined area the land described in the petition if it is 2-5 feasible, practicable, and to the advantage of the defined area and 2-6 if the defined area's system and other improvements of the defined 2-7 area are sufficient or will be sufficient to supply the added land 2-8 without injuring land already in the defined area. 2-9 (e) If the defined area has bonds payable in whole or in 2-10 part from taxation of a defined area that are voted but unissued at 2-11 the time of annexation and the petitioners assume the bonds and 2-12 authorize the district to levy a tax on their property to pay the 2-13 bonds of the defined area, then the board may issue the voted but 2-14 unissued bonds even though the boundaries of the defined area have 2-15 been altered since the authorization of the bonds. 2-16 (f) The granted petition shall be filed for record and shall 2-17 be recorded in the office of the county clerk of the county or 2-18 counties in which the added land is located. 2-19 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.