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200 GENERAL LAWS.
METHOD OF EXCLUDING LAND FROM CERTAIN
IMPROVEMENT DISTRICTS.
S. B. No. 43.] CHAPTER 57.
An Act providing a method how lands lying in Counties having an area
of not less than one thousand thirty-four (1034) square miles and not
more than one thousand thirty-six (1036) square miles, according to
figures in General Land Office, forming part of an irrigation district,
water improvement district, water control and improvement district,
or of any conservation or reclamation district either or both, or of any
drainage or levee district, which now are or which may subsequently
be incorporated, made part of and annexed to an incorporated city,
may be taken out and excluded from such district or districts, so as to
thereafter relieve said lands from any other taxes, charges or assessments
in such district or districts, except their proportionate part of
the bonded indebtedness existing against said district or districts at
the time they are incorporated and made part of said incorporated
city; and declaring an emergency.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas:
SECTION 1. Definitions.
Whenever in this Act the word incorporated city is used, it
shall mean any city incorporated under the general laws or
under a special charter granted by the Legislature, or incorporated
under what is known as The Home Rule Amendment
to the Constitution, and now located in counties having an area
of not less than one thousand thirty-four (1034) square miles,
and not over one thousand thirty-six (1036) square miles, according
to figures in General Land Office.
Whenever in this Act the word district or districts is used,
it shall mean any incorporated irrigation district, water improvement
district, water control and improvement district or
any conservation district, or reclamation district, or conservation
and reclamation district, or any drainage district, or any
levee district, as now or hereafter incorporated under the general
laws applicable to said district, located in counties having
an area of not less than one thousand thirty-four (1034) square
miles and not over one thousand thirty-six (1036) square miles,
according to figures in General Land Office.
SEC. 2. Whenever there is included within the limits of any
incorporated city any lands forming part of any one or more of
the districts as above defined; or where any lands forming part
of any one or more of the districts as above defined are subsequently
incorporated within or annexed to the city limits of any
incorporated city, or where any land or lands forming part of
an incorporated city are subsequently included in or taken into
any one or more of said districts, the owner or owners of all
or any part 9f said land or lands, shall have the right to have
same excluded from, and taken out of any one or more of said
districts, of which said land or lands form a part, by filing an
application with the governing body of said district or districts
requesting said lands to be so excluded for the reason that the
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Gammel, Hans Peter Mareus Neilsen. The Laws of Texas, 1929-1931 [Volume 27], book, 1931; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth16362/m1/212/: accessed April 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .