Bill Text: TX SB1239 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Relating to the authority of a municipality to remove directors of the North Texas Municipal Water District.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-05-17 - Left pending in committee [SB1239 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB1239-Engrossed.html
| By: Taylor of Collin | S.B. No. 1239 | |
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| relating to the authority of a municipality to remove directors of | ||
| the North Texas Municipal Water District. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 3(a), Chapter 62, Acts of the 52nd | ||
| Legislature, Regular Session, 1951, is amended to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 3(a). All powers of the District shall be exercised by | ||
| a board of directors. Such directors shall be appointed by majority | ||
| vote for the governing body of each of the cities contained in the | ||
| District. In appointing the first directors for a city containing | ||
| 5,000 population or more according to the most recent Federal | ||
| Census, the governing body of such city shall appoint one director | ||
| who shall serve to and including May 31, 1952, and one who shall | ||
| serve to and including May 31, 1953. In May, 1952, and in May of | ||
| each year thereafter, the governing body of such city shall appoint | ||
| one director for the two year term beginning on June 1 of that year. | ||
| In appointing the first director for a city of less than 5,000 | ||
| population, according to the most recent Federal Census, the | ||
| governing body of such city shall appoint one director who shall | ||
| serve to and including May 31, 1952. In May, 1952, and in May of | ||
| each even year thereafter, the governing body shall appoint one | ||
| director for the two year term beginning on June 1 of that year. | ||
| Each director shall serve for his term of office as herein provided, | ||
| and thereafter until his successor shall be appointed and | ||
| qualified. Notwithstanding any other law, a director serves at the | ||
| pleasure of the governing body of the city that appointed the | ||
| director and may be removed by the governing body at any time | ||
| without cause. No person shall be appointed a director unless he | ||
| resides in and owns taxable property in the city from which he is | ||
| appointed. No member of a governing body of a city, and no employee | ||
| of a city, shall be appointed as director. Such directors shall | ||
| subscribe to the Constitutional oath of office, and each shall give | ||
| bond for the faithful performance of his duties in the amount of | ||
| $5,000.00, the cost of which shall be paid by the District. A | ||
| majority shall constitute a quorum. | ||
| 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, 2017. | ||
