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FORTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE-SECOND CALLED SESSION. 131
county other than the county in which the bonds were originally
voted.
SEC. 2. All laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith are
hereby repealed herein and to the extent only that they conflict
with any of the provisions of this Act.
SEC. 3. The fact that it is necessary to establish the validity
of bond transactions heretofore made by certain counties so
that steps can be taken immediately to protect the credit of
counties affected, and the crowded condition of the calendar
create an emergency and an imperative public necessity that
the Constitutional Rule requiring bills to be read on three several
days be suspended, and the same is hereby suspended, and
that this Act shall be in force and take effect immediately from
and after its passage, and it is so enacted.
[NOTE.-S. B. No. 16 passed the Senate, February 19, 1934,
by a vote of 30 yeas, 0 nays; passed the House, February 26,
1934, by a vote of 107 yeas, 0 nays.]
Approved March 13, 1934.
Effective March 13, 1934.
REGULATING ENDURANCE CONTESTS.
S. B. No. 38.] CHAPTER 62.
An Act to regulate the conducting in public competition for prizes, awards,
or admission fees, any personal, physical or mental endurance contests;
regulating the manner in which contestants may participate in such contests;
prescribing the penalties for violation of this Act; providing for
certain exceptions to this Act; declaring that any house, structure, building,
place or open air space that is being used for purposes in violation
of the provisions of this Act is declared to be a nuisance; providing that
any person who knowingly maintains or assists in maintaining of such a
place is guilty of maintaining a nuisance, authorizing the Attorney General
or the district attorney or county attorney under certain circumstances
to enjoin and abate such nuisance; prescribing the character of
judgment that shall be entered against the continuance of such nuisance;
providing certain conditions with reference to bonds to be furnished in
such cases; repealing Chapter 204, page 337 of the Acts of the FortySecond
Legislature, 1931; prescribing penalties for violations; providing
that if any portion of this Act shall be declared unconstitutional it shall
not affect the validity of the remainder and declaring an emergency.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas:
SECTION 1. It shall hereafter be unlawful for any person
to conduct in public competition for prizes, awards or admission
fees, any personal, physical or mental endurance contest
that continues longer than twenty-four (24) hours.
SEC. 2. It shall hereafter be unlawful for any person to
conduct, within any period of one hundred sixty-eight (168)
hours, in public competition for prizes, awards, or admission
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Gammel, Hans Peter Mareus Neilsen. The Laws of Texas, 1934-1935 [Volume 29], book, 1935; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth17292/m1/141/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .