The Laws of Texas, 1937-1939 [Volume 31] Page: 185 of 1,313

                                
FORTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE-SECOND CALLED SESSION 1907
bonds therefor shall be at the times and in the manner and
amounts which may be prescribed by the order or orders of the
Commissioners Court.
All such refunding bonds when approved by the Attorney
General and registered and delivered by the Comptroller of Public
Accounts as aforesaid, shall be valid and binding obligations
of such district and shall be incontestable for any cause from and
after the time of such registration and delivery.
SEC. 5. By resolution duly passed at a meeting of the Commissioners
Court of any county in which is wholly located any
drainage district or districts, and by resolution duly passed at a
meeting of the commissioners of any such drainage district or
districts, such county and drainage district or districts may adopt
the provisions of this Section and from and after the adoption
hereof by said Commissioners Court and by such drainage district
or districts, any and all functions, powers, rights, and duties
exercised by or pertaining to the commissioners of such drainage
district or districts shall be transferred to, vest in, and be
thereafter exercised by the Commissioners Court of the county
within which said drainage district or districts are wholly situated.
The Commissioners Court of said county shall thereafter
be the sole governing body of such drainage district or districts
with the powers, functions, rights, and duties aforesaid and the
members of said Commissioners Court shall not be entitled to
any compensation by reason thereof.
SEC. 6. If any of the provisions of this Act or the application
thereof to any person or circumstance shall be held to be invalid,
the remainder of the Act and the application of such provision
to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected thereby.
SEC. 7. The fact that there is now no provision of law whereby
drainage districts may take advantage of the facilities of the
Reconstruction Finance Corporation in reducing their indebtedness
by refunding operations and none whereby the Commissioners
Court can serve as the governing body of such drainage
districts 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 it is hereby
suspended, and that this Act take effect from and after its passage,
and it is so enacted.
[NOTE.-H. B. No. 70 passed the House, October 12, 1937,
by a vote of 128 yeas, 3 nays; passed the Senate, with amendments,
October 26, 1937, by a vote of 23 yeas, 2 nays; House concurred
in Senate amendments, October 26, 1937, by a vote of
134 yeas, 1 nay.]
Approved October 27, 1937.
Effective October 27, 1937.