By:  Bernsen                                          S.B. No. 1689
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to the sale and exchange of lands by certain navigation
 1-2     districts.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 1, Chapter 176, Acts of the 54th
 1-5     Legislature, 1955 (Article 8247f, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes),
 1-6     is amended to read as follows:
 1-7     Sec. 1.  The Governing Board of any navigation district in this
 1-8     State heretofore or hereafter created under the laws of this State
 1-9     and having within its limits a city containing [two hundred fifty
1-10     thousand (250,000)] five thousand (5,000) population or more
1-11     according to the latest preceding or
1-12     any future Federal Census shall have and there is hereby conferred
1-13     the right, power and authority, when in the opinion of a majority
1-14     of said Governing Board it is necessary, desirable or advantageous
1-15     to the interest of said navigation district so to do, to exchange
1-16     lands with any other public or private landowner, or, as an
1-17     incident to the acquisition of lands for the uses and purposes of
1-18     said navigation district, to make conveyance to another state or
1-19     federal governmental entity, person, firm or corporation of land
1-20     owned and held by said navigation district the ownership and use of
1-21     which was no longer necessary or desirable or the use of which
1-22     lands was not as feasible or desirable for the public purposes of
 2-1     said navigation district as is and as will be the lands to be
 2-2     acquired by said navigation district, pursuant to such terms,
 2-3     conditions and stipulations as may be mutually agreed upon by the
 2-4     parties to such exchange or conveyance.
 2-5           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-6     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-7     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-8     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-9     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-10     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-11     passage, and it is so enacted.