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79R9732 JRJ-D


By:  Dutton                                                       H.B. No. 2667



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the election of a director of a municipal utility 
district.     
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 54, Water Code, is amended 
by adding Section 54.0225 to read as follows:
	Sec. 54.0225.  ELECTION OF DIRECTORS.  (a)  Notwithstanding 
any other law, the county clerk, or the county officer who performs 
the election duties of the county clerk, of the county in which the 
district is located shall perform the duties of the board in regard 
to an election for a member of the board.
	(b)  If the district is located in more than one county, the 
county clerk or other county officer of the county in which the most 
inhabitants of the district reside shall perform the election 
duties under Subsection (a).
	(c)  This section does not affect the duties of a board under 
Section 49.103.
	(d)  The district shall pay the county for election services 
required under this section in the manner provided by Subchapter D, 
Chapter 31, Election Code, for a contract to furnish election 
services.
	SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies to an 
election for a director of a municipal utility district ordered on 
or after the effective date of this Act.
	SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2005.