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.