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 | ||
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| 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 | ||
