By Truitt H.B. No. 1937 76R6653 MCK-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to a local option election for the sale of alcoholic 1-3 beverages in a city or town located in more than one county. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 251, Alcoholic Beverage 1-6 Code, is amended by adding Section 251.18 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 251.18. ELECTION IN CERTAIN CITIES AND TOWNS. (a) 1-8 This section applies only to an incorporated city or town located 1-9 in more than one county. 1-10 (b) Any election conducted under this chapter in a city or 1-11 town to which this section applies shall be conducted by the city 1-12 or town instead of the county. For the purposes of this section, 1-13 in this subchapter and Subchapters B and C: 1-14 (1) a reference to the county is considered to refer 1-15 to the city or town; 1-16 (2) a reference to the commissioners court is 1-17 considered to refer to the governing body of the city or town; 1-18 (3) a reference to the county clerk or registrar of 1-19 voters is considered to refer to the secretary of the city or town 1-20 or, if the city or town does not have a secretary, to the person 1-21 performing the functions of a secretary of the city or town; and 1-22 (4) a reference to the county judge is considered to 1-23 refer to the mayor of the city or town or, if the city or town does 1-24 not have a mayor, to the presiding officer of the governing body of 2-1 the city or town. 2-2 (c) The city or town shall pay the expense of the election. 2-3 (d) An action to contest the election under Section 251.55 2-4 may be brought in the district court of any county in which the 2-5 city or town is located. 2-6 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-7 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-8 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-9 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-10 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-11 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-12 passage, and it is so enacted.