Bill Text: TX SB1225 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Enrolled


Bill Title: Relating to the disannexation of land in Caldwell County by the Gonzales County Underground Water Conservation District or the Plum Creek Conservation District.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective immediately [SB1225 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-SB1225-Enrolled.html
 
 
  S.B. No. 1225
 
 
 
 
AN ACT
  relating to the disannexation of land in Caldwell County by the
  Gonzales County Underground Water Conservation District or the Plum
  Creek Conservation District.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  (a)  Not later than the 30th day after the
  effective date of this Act, the board of the Gonzales County
  Underground Water Conservation District and the board of the Plum
  Creek Conservation District shall jointly prepare a form that
  requests disannexation of land located in Caldwell County from the
  territory of the Gonzales County Underground Water Conservation
  District or the Plum Creek Conservation District.
         (b)  Not later than the 10th day after the form is prepared,
  the board of the Gonzales County Underground Water District shall
  mail the form to each owner of land that on the effective date of
  this Act is included in the territory of both the Gonzales County
  Underground Water District and the Plum Creek Conservation
  District.
         (c)  On receipt of the form, each owner must clearly mark and
  sign the form to indicate from which district the owner wants the
  applicable land to be disannexed. An owner may not elect to have
  land be disannexed by both districts.
         (d)  The signed forms must be returned to the board of the
  Gonzales County Underground Water District on or before December
  31, 2011. That board shall send a copy of each form received before
  the deadline to the board of the Plum Creek Conservation District.
         (e)  If the owner of land does not comply with Subsection (c)
  of this section before the deadline, the applicable land will be
  disannexed by the Gonzales County Underground Water District.
         (f)  As soon as practicable after December 31, 2011, the land
  specified for disannexation by the owners under Subsection (c) of
  this section or subject to disannexation under Subsection (e) of
  this section shall be disannexed by resolution of the board of the
  Gonzales County Underground Water District or the Plum Creek
  Conservation District, as appropriate.
         (g)  The board of each district shall file a copy of that
  district's disannexation resolution in the office of the county
  clerk of Caldwell County. The county clerk shall record the
  resolution in the county records. On the date the disannexation
  resolution is recorded, the excluded territory is no longer part of
  the district that filed the resolution.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
  a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
  provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
  Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
  Act takes effect September 1, 2011.
 
 
 
 
 
  ______________________________ ______________________________
     President of the Senate Speaker of the House     
 
         I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1225 passed the Senate on
  April 19, 2011, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.
 
 
  ______________________________
  Secretary of the Senate    
 
         I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1225 passed the House on
  May 25, 2011, by the following vote:  Yeas 147, Nays 0, one
  present not voting.
 
 
  ______________________________
  Chief Clerk of the House   
 
 
 
  Approved:
 
  ______________________________ 
              Date
 
 
  ______________________________ 
            Governor
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