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.