General and Special Laws of The State of Texas Passed By The Third Called Session of the Fifty-Seventh Legislature and the Regular Session of the Fifty-Eighth Legislature Page: 817
iii-xxiii, 270, xxxix, 1943 p. ; 25 cm.View a full description of this legislative document.
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LAKE DALLAS MUNICIPAL UTILITY AUTHORITY Ch. 312
jority shall constitute a quorum. If any director moves from the Authority
or otherwise ceases to be a director, the governing body of the City shall
appoint a director to succeed him for the unexpired term.
(d) No compensation shall be paid to directors.
Sec. 4. The Board shall elect from its number a president and a vice
president of the Authority and such other officers as in the judgment of
the Board are necessary. The president shall be the chief executive offi-
cer of the Authority and the presiding officer of the Board and shall have
the same right to vote as any other director. The vice president shall per-
form all duties and exercise all powers imposed or conferred by this Act
upon the president when the president is absent or fails or declines to
act, except the exercise of the president's right to vote. The Board shall
also appoint a secretary and a treasurer who may or may not be members
of the Board, and it may combine those offices. The treasurer shall give
bond in such amount as may be required by the Board. The condition of
such bond shall be that he will faithfully account for all money which
shall come into his custody as treasurer of the Authority. The Board shall
appoint necessary engineers, attorneys and other employees and employ
a manager. The power to employ and discharge employees may be con-
ferred upon the manager. The Board shall adopt a seal for the Authority.
Sec. 5. Territory annexed to the City may be annexed to the Authority
in the following manner:
(a) At any time after final passage of an ordinance annexing territory
to the City, the Board may issue a notice of hearing on the question of
annexing to the Authority said territory or any part thereof. Such notice
shall be sufficient if it states the date and place of the hearing, a descrip-
tion of the area proposed to be annexed, but in lieu of such description the
notice may make reference to the annexation ordinance of the City.
(b) The notice shall be published one time in a newspaper having
general circulation in the City, such publication shall be at least ten (10)
days before the date set for the hearing.
(c) If pursuant to such hearing, the Board finds that the territory pro-
posed to be annexed will be benefitted by the water supply afforded or to
be afforded by the Authority, the Board shall adopt a resolution annexing
said territory to the Authority.
(d) After territory is added to the Authority, the Board may call an
election over the 'entire Authority as enlarged for the purpose of deter-
mining whether the entire Authority as enlarged shall assume the tax-
supported bonds then outstanding and those theretofore voted, if any, but
not yet sold and whether an ad valorem tax shall be levied upon all taxable
property within the Authority as enlarged for the payment thereof. Such
election shall be called and held in the same manner as elections for the
issuance of bonds wholly or partially supported by taxation.as provided in
Section 14 of this Act.
Sec. 6. Authority is authorized to develop a surface or underground
water supply and to construct or cause to be constructed a diversion works,
pumps, pumping stations, pipelines, intermediate and terminal storage
reservoirs, a water treatment plant, distribution system and all other re-
lated facilities which will implement the duty of the Authority to deliver
and distribute water to the City and other water users, and to purchase,
improve and extend the existing water system or systems. The specifica-
tions contained in this Section of certain elements of the Authority's pro-
posed water supply, treatment, and transportation system, shall not pre-
clude Authority from constructing all facilities necessary or convenient in
enabling Authority to deliver, treat and distribute water. The Authority
is also authorized to construct a complete sanitary sewer system. The
gathering and proper disposal of sewage is declared to be necessary to pro-
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Texas. Legislature. General and Special Laws of The State of Texas Passed By The Third Called Session of the Fifty-Seventh Legislature and the Regular Session of the Fifty-Eighth Legislature, legislative document, 1963; [Austin, Texas]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth221759/m1/1153/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.