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: 1,257
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NAVIGATION DISTRICTS
however, the Commissioners Court of any county may employ an individ-
ual, firm or corporation deemed to have special skill and experience to
compile taxation data for its use while sitting as a Board of Equalization
and to provide for the payment of the compensation for such professional
services out of the proper fund or funds of the county.
"(B). To pay any contractual obligation to be incurred for profes-
sional services under the provisions hereof, the Commissioners Courts are
hereby authorized to issue time warrants payable from the general fund
of the county in the manner provided by the Bond and Warrant Law of
1931; provided, however, that warrants so issued shall mature within six
(6) years from their respective dates."
Sec. 2. If any section, subsection, paragraph, sentence, clause, phrase
or word in this Act or application thereto to any person, school, district
or circumstance is held invalid, such holding shall not affect the validity
of the remaining portions of this Act, and the Legislature hereby de-
clares it would have passed such remaining portions despite such invalid-
ity.
Sec. 3. The importance of this Act and the crowded condition of the
Calendar constitute and create 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 such Rule is hereby sus-
pended, and this Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
passage, and it is so enacted.
Passed the House, April 30, 1963: Yeas 147, Nays 0; House concur-
red in Senate amendments, May 23, 1963, by a non-record vote;
passed the Senate, as amended, May 21, 1963: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
Approved June 10, 1963.
Effective 90 days after May 24, 1963, date of adjournment.
NAVIGATION DISTRICTS-ADVERTISING FOR BIDS
CHAPTER 482
H. B. No. 987
An Act amending Section 66 of Chapter 27, Acts of the Forty-second Legislature,
Third Called SeSsion, 1932 (compiled as Section 66 of Article 8263e of
Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), so as to make the requirements governing
advertising for bids by navigation districts coming within the purview of
the Act conform with the requirements governing advertising for bids by
counties and cities of this State; and declaring an emergency.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas:
Section 1. Section 66 of Chapter 27, Acts of the Forty-second Legis-
lature, Third Called Session, 1932 (compiled as Section 66 of Article 8263e
of Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended 52 to read as follows:
"Sec. 66. No contract calling for or requiring the expenditure or pay-
ment of Two Thousand Dollars ($2,000) or more out of any fund or funds
of any district shall hereafter be made by the navigation and canal com-
missioners of any district without first submitting such proposed contract
to competitive bids. Notice of the time and place when and where such
contracts shall be let shall be published in one or more newspapers of gen-
52. Vernon's Ann.Civ.St. art. 8263e, 66.
1257Ch. 482
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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/m1/1593/?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.