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FORTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE-FIFTH CALLED SESSION. 139
VALIDATING ACT RELATING TO HOME RULE CITY.
H. B. No. 125.] CHAPTER 16.
An Act validating all elections, election orders, election proceedings and
city ordinances annexing adjacent territory to, or extending and prescribing
the corporate limits of, any Home Rule City that has adopted
a charter under Article Eleven (11), Section Five (5), of the Constitution
of Texas, and the provisions of Chapter 147, Acts of the Regular
Session of the 33rd Legislature of the State of Texas, 1913, but which
city did not in fact have a population of five thousand according to the
1920 Federal Census; and declaring an emergency.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas:
SECTION 1. All elections, election orders, election proceedings
and city ordinances annexing adjacent territory to, or extending
and prescribing the corporate limits of, any Home Rule City
that has adopted a charter under Article Eleven (11), Section
Five (5), of the Constitution of Texas, and the provisions of
Chapter 147, Acts of the Regular Session of the 33rd Legislature
of the State of Texas, 1913, but which City did not in fact
have a population of five thousand according to the 1920 Federal
Census, be and the same are hereby validated and confirmed.
SEC. 2. The city ordinances of all Home Rule Cities in the
class described in the foregoing Section fixing and prescribing
the corporate limits extended by the annexation or attempted
annexation of adjacent territory are hereby validated.
SEC. 3. The fact that many of the cities of the small class
mentioned have increased in population and extended or attempted
to extend their corporate limits from time to time, and
that questions concerning the regularity of such proceedings
have repeatedly arisen, and will likely continue to arise, thereby
interfering and threatening to interfere with the municipal government
of such annexed territory, especially in the enforcement
of police, fire and sanitary measures, and the making of
valuable public improvements, as well as the public welfare generally,
create an emergency and imperative public necessity that
the Constitutional Rule requiring Bills to be read on three separate
days be suspended, and said Rule is suspended, and this
Act shall take effect and be in force from and after the date of
its passage and it is so enacted.
Approved March 15, 1930.
Effective March 15, 1930.
[NOTE.-H. B. No. 125 passed the House by a vote of 102 yeas,
0 nays; passed the Senate by a vote of 29 yeas, 0 nays.]
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