By Lewis of Orange H.B. No. 3620
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the sale and exchange of lands by certain navigation
1-3 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, 1955 (article 8247f, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes),
1-7 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 fifty thousand (250,000)] five thousand (5,000) population or more
1-12 according to the latest preceding or any future Federal Census
1-13 shall have and there is hereby conferred the right, power and
1-14 authority, when in the opinion of a majority of said Governing
1-15 Board it is necessary, desirable or advantageous to the interest of
1-16 said navigation district so to do, to exchange lands with any other
1-17 public or private landowner, or, as an incident to the acquisition
1-18 of lands for the uses and purposes of said navigation district, to
1-19 make conveyance to another state or federal governmental entity,
1-20 person, firm or corporation of lands owned and held by said
1-21 navigation the ownership and use of which was no longer necessary
2-1 or desirable or the use of which lands was not as feasible or
2-2 desirable for the public purposes of said navigation district as is
2-3 and as will be the lands to be acquired by said navigation
2-4 district, pursuant to such terms, conditions and stipulations as
2-5 may be mutually agreed upon by the parties to such exchange or
2-6 conveyance.
2-7 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-8 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-9 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-10 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-11 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-12 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-13 passage, and it is so enacted.