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372 SPECIAL LAWS.
WICHITA COUNTY ROAD SYSTEM-AMENDING LAW
CREATING, ETC.
H. B. No. 637.] CHAPTER 100.
An Act to amend Section 2 of Chapter 85 of the Local and Special Laws
of the State of Texas, passed at the Second Called Session of the Thirtysixth
Legislature, Act was:
"An Act creating a more efficient road system for Wichita County,
Texas, and making the county commissioners of said county ex-officio
road commissioners and prescribing their duties as such; providing for
the compensation of such road commissioners and defining the powers
and duties of such county commissioners; providing for the maintenance
of such part or parts of National and State highways as are in Wichita
County; providing for the construction and maintenance of such highways
through the corporate limits of incorporated cities and towns in
said district; providing for the employment of a county road superintendent
and defining the duties of such road superintendent, providing
when the commissioners' court of said county shall order an election
for the issuance of bonds for the improvement of public roads, such
bonds must be designated in said order; providing for the maintenance
of roads, constructed with the proceeds of the sale of such bonds; providing
for the compensation of county treasury for handling funds
arising from said land sales; providing the character of construction to
be used for such roads; providing for eminent domain, making it
optional for Wichita County to proceed to condemn land under railroad
condemnation statute or to act under general law relative to opening
public roads by jury ot view; providing for the employment of convicts
on county roads; authorizing the commissioners' court to order railway
companies to ditch or drain along their rights of way in such manner
as to prevent injury to the public highways; providing for liability to
the county for damages resulting from hauling heavy loads on such
highways; providing penalties for the obstruction or diversion of the
flow of rainfall in such manner as to cause damage to the highways of
said county; providing for the issuance of bonds in such manner as is
provided by the General Laws of the State of Texas; defining the meaning
of the word 'road' and 'highway'; authorizing the investment of
sinking funds of said county in bonds authorized by law; prohibiting
county officials of Wichita County from becoming financially interested
in contracts of said county and prescribing penalties therefor; repealing
all laws and parts of law in conflict herewith; providing that provision
of this Act are cumulative of the General Laws of the State of Texas
when not in conflict therewith; providing for the repeal of Chapters 29
of the General Laws of Texas approved March 22nd, 1918, in so far as
the same affects Wichita County, and declaring an emergency."
This amendment being for the purpose of providing that the road
taxes general and special for Wichita County and the gross registration,
chauffeur and transfer fees collected on motor vehicles and the like
as now or hereafter provided by law, and paid into the county depository
of Wichita County to the credit of its special highways fund shall be
distributed among the four commissioners precincts in accordance with
the residence or business address of such registrant or owner, and to
be expended only upon the public roads or system within such commissioners'
precinct except with the consent of the commissioner from
whose precinct said funds are to be transferred, repealing all laws in
conflict, and declaring an emergency.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas:
SECTION 1. That Section 2 of Chapter 85 of the Local and Special
Laws of the State of Texas passed at the Second Called Ses-
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Gammel, Hans Peter Mareus Neilsen. The Laws of Texas, 1923-1925 [Volume 22], book, 1925; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth15500/m1/382/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .