The Laws of Texas, 1927 [Volume 25] Page: 350 of 1,111
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334 GENERAL AND SPECIAL LAWS.
tion to the county court of the district court as soon as possible,
creates an emergency and an imperative public necessity that
the constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
days in each House be suspended, and said rule is hereby suspended,
and that this Act shall take effect and be in force from
and after its passage, and it is so enacted.
Approved March 30, 1927.
Effective March 30, 1927.
CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES-ASSESSMENTS FOR
STREET WIDENING AND OPENING PAYABLE
IN INSTALLMENTS.
S. B. No. 270.] CHAPTER 227.
An Act to amend Chapter 17, Title 28: Cities, towns, and villagesArticle
1213 of the Revised Civil Statutes of Texas of 1925, so that
assessments for street widening and street opening may be made payable
in not exceeding sixteen annual payments, and declaring an emergency.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas:
SECTION 1. That Title 28: City, Town, and Villages, Chaper
17, Article 1213, of the 1925 Revised Civil Statutes of the
State of Texas, be, and the same is hereby amended so as to hereafter
read as follows:
Article 1213. Assessment Levied: The governing body shall
make assessments by ordinance. Said assessments may be enforced
by suit brought by the city for the benefit of any holder
and owner of such assessments, or of the certificates issued thereon,
or brought by such holder and owner; or by the sale of the
property assessed in the same manner as near as possible as is
provided for the sale of real estate for municipal taxes. Assessments
may be made payable in not exceeding sixteen installments,
the last maturing in not over fifteen years, and may
bear interest at not over eight per cent per annum.
SEC. 2. The importance of the subject matter of this Act
and the fact that a change as provided herein should be made
in the laws of the state creates an emergency and an imperative
necessity which demands that the constitutional rule requiring
that bills be read on three several days before final passage be
suspended, and that this Act shall take effect and be in force
from its passage, and it is so enacted.
[NOTE.-S. B. No. 270, passed the Senate without a roll call;
passed the House 103 yeas, 6 nays.]
Approved March 30, 1927.
Effective (90) ninety days after adjournment.
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Gammel, Hans Peter Mareus Neilsen. The Laws of Texas, 1927 [Volume 25], book, 1927; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth16125/m1/350/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .