1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the exchange and conveyance of lands by certain
1-3 navigation districts.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 1, Chapter 176, Acts of the 54th
1-6 Legislature, Regular Session, 1955 (Article 8247f, Vernon's Texas
1-7 Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
1-8 Sec. 1. The Governing Board of any navigation district in
1-9 this State heretofore or hereafter created under the laws of this
1-10 State [and having within its limits a city containing two hundred
1-11 and fifty thousand (250,000) population or more according to the
1-12 latest preceding or any future Federal Census] shall have and there
1-13 is hereby conferred the right, power and authority, when in the
1-14 opinion of a majority of said Governing Board it is necessary,
1-15 desirable or advantageous to the interest of said navigation
1-16 district so to do, to exchange lands with any other public or
1-17 private landowner, or, as an incident to the acquisition of lands
1-18 for the uses and purposes of said navigation district, to make
1-19 conveyance to another state or federal governmental entity, person,
1-20 firm or corporation of lands owned and held by said navigation
1-21 district the ownership and use of which was no longer necessary or
1-22 desirable or the use of which lands was not as feasible or
1-23 desirable for the public purposes of said navigation district as is
1-24 and as will be the lands to be acquired by said navigation
2-1 district, in accordance with any terms, conditions, or stipulations
2-2 agreed on by the parties to the exchange or conveyance.
2-3 SECTION 2. Section 1 of this Act does not:
2-4 (1) affect a limitation or condition contained in:
2-5 (A) a lease of land by the state to a navigation
2-6 district; or
2-7 (B) a conveyance of land from the state to a
2-8 navigation district under former Article 8225, Revised Statutes, or
2-9 any other general or special law; or
2-10 (2) in any way affect Section 61.116 or 61.117, Water
2-11 Code.
2-12 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-13 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-15 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-17 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-18 passage, and it is so enacted.
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President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 3620 was passed by the House on May
4, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 144, Nays 0, 2 present, not
voting; that the House refused to concur in Senate amendments to
H.B. No. 3620 on May 22, 1999, and requested the appointment of a
conference committee to consider the differences between the two
houses; and that the House adopted the conference committee report
on H.B. No. 3620 on May 30, 1999, by a non-record vote.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 3620 was passed by the Senate, with
amendments, on May 20, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 29, Nays
0; at the request of the House, the Senate appointed a conference
committee to consider the differences between the two houses; and
that the Senate adopted the conference committee report on H.B. No.
3620 on May 30, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor