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92 GENERAL LAWS.
961 of the Revised Civil Statutes of Texas, 1925, and amendments
thereto, notwithstanding any limitation contained in said
Article as to minimum population or as to the inclusion of manufacturing
establishments; and, after having adopted such powers,
any such municipality shall be known as a city or town, and
shall be vested with all of the rights, powers, privileges, immunities
and franchises conferred or imposed on cities or towns
by the laws contained in Title 28 of the Revised Civil Statutes
of Texas, 1925, and amendments thereto.
SEC. 2. That this Act shall be cumulative of all other laws,
but, in the event any of its provisions shall conflict with the
provisions of any other law, the provisions hereof shall prevail
to the extent of such conflict.
SEC. 3. The fact that certain towns and villages are in urgent
need of the benefits conferred by this Act creates an emergency
and an imperative public necessity that the Constitutional Rule
requiring all bills to be read on three several days in each House,
and that the Constitutional Rule prohibiting the final passage
of a bill within the first sixty days of a Regular Session of the
Legislature, be suspended and the same are hereby suspended,
and that this Act be in full force and effect from and after its
passage, and it is so enacted.
[NOTE.-S. B. No. 256 was passed by the Senate, March 23,
1939, by a vote of 29 yeas, 0 nays; by the House, April 6,
1939, by a vote of 129 yeas, 0 nays.]
Approved April 13, 1939.
Effective April 13, 1939.
CHAPTER 2.
ESTABLISHMENT OF CORPORATION COURTS IN CITIES
OF OVER 285,000 INHABITANTS.
H. B. No. 554.]
An Act enabling cities of over two hundred and eighty-five thousand
(285,000) population, according to the last preceding United States
Census, to establish two (2) Corporation Courts; providing such
Courts shall have the usual jurisdiction now given to Corporation
Courts by the General Laws of the State of Texas, enabling cities to
prescribe the qualifications of the Recorder of said Courts; providing
that cases may be transferred from one Court to the other; providing
that there shall be one Corporation Court Clerk; providing that complaints
shall be filed to assure equal distribution of cases; providing
that the procedure shall be as provided by the General Law of Texas;
repealing all laws in conflict herewith; providing a saving clause; and
declaring an emergency.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas:
SECTION 1. All incorporated cities of this State having a
population in excess of two hundred and eighty-five thousand
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Gammel, Hans Peter Mareus Neilsen. The Laws of Texas, 1937-1939 [Volume 31], book, 1939; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth18824/m1/466/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .