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: 1,202
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58TH LEGISLATURE--REGULAR SESSION
election in favor of the proposition shall be necessary. The ballots shall
have printed thereon:
"FOR the creation of a Hospital District; providing for the levy of
a tax not to exceed seventy-five cents (75) on the One Hundred Dollar
($100) valuation of the properties of said District for all purposes in any
one year, and providing that the portion of such tax to meet the require-
ments of the bonds of said District shall not exceed twenty cents (200) in
any one year on the One Hundred Dollar ($100) valuation of the proper-
ties of said District"; and
"AGAINST the creation of a Hospital District; providing for the levy
of a tax not to exceed seventy-five cents (75) on the One Hundred Dollar
($100) valuation of the properties of said District for all purposes in
any one year, and providing that the portion of such tax to meet the re-
quirements of the bonds of said District shall not exceed twenty cents
(200) in any one year on the One Hundred Dollar ($100) valuation of the
properties of said District."
If such county, or any city, located wholly or in part within the said
District, either, or all of them, have any outstanding indebtedness there-
tofor incurred for hospital purposes which by the provisions of Section
9 of Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Texas are required to
be assumed by the Hospital District, then the ballots of such election shall
instead of the foregoing have printed thereon:
"FOR the creation of a Hospital District; providing for the levy of a
tax not to exceed seventy-five cents (75) on the One Hundred Dollar
($100) valuation of the properties of said District for all purposes in any
one year, and providing that the portion of said tax to meet the require-
ments of the bonds of said District shall not exceed twenty cents (200)
in any one year on the One Hundred Dollar ($100) valuation of the prop-
erties of said District; and providing for the assumption by such District
of all outstanding indebtedness incurred by Cities, Towns and Counties
for hospital purposes prior to the creation of this District, if said Cities,
Towns and Counties are located wholly within the boundaries of said
District, and a pro rata portion of such indebtedness based upon the then
last approved tax assessment rolls of the included Cities, Towns and
Counties, if less than all the territory thereof is included within the said
District boundaries"; and
"AGAINST the creation of a Hospital District; providing for the levy
of a tax not to exceed seventy-five cents (750) on the One Hundred Dol-
lar ($100) valuation of the properties of said District for all purposes in
any one year, and providing that the portion of said tax to meet the re-
quirements of the bonds of said District shall not exceed twenty cents
(20) in any one year on the One Hundred Dollar ($100) valuation of
the properties of said District; and providing for the assumption by
such District of all outstanding indebtedness incurred by Cities, Towns
and Counties for hospital purposes prior to the creation of this District,
if said Cities, Towns and Counties are located wholly within the bound-
aries of said District, and a pro rata portion of such indebtedness based
upon the then last approved tax assessment rolls of the included Cities,
Towns and Counties, if less than all the territory thereof is included
within the said District boundaries."
Cash deposit with petition for election for the creation of
hospital district; disposition
Sec. 3. The petition to the Commissioners Court for the calling of
an election to create the Hospital District herein provided for, shall be ac-
companied by Two Hundred Dollars ($200) in cash, which shall be de-
posited with the Clerk of the said Court, and be used in defraying the costs
1202Ch. 479
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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/m1/1538/?q=+date%3A1945-1972: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.