By Truitt                                             H.B. No. 1937
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                                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.