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58TH LEGISLATURE--REGULAR SESSION
gation and Canal Commissioners of the Willacy County Navigation Dis-
trict shall appoint his or their successors. The term of office of each mem-
ber of the first Board of Supervisors shall expire on January 15, 1965.
With the exception of the first Board of Supervisors, said Board shall be
appointed, as herein provided, by the Board of Navigation and Canal
Commissioners of Willacy County Navigation District. In January, 1965,
the Board of Navigation and Canal Commissioners of Willacy County
Navigation District shall appoint three (3) supervisors to serve for a
term of two (2) years and two (2) supervisors to serve for a term of one
year. In January, 1966, two (2) supervisors shall be appointed to serve
for a term of two (2) years, and thereafter three (3) supervisors shall
be appointed (for a two-year term) in one year and two (2) supervisors
shall be appointed (for a two-year term) in the next year in continuing
sequence. The terms of the supervisors shall expire on the 15th day of
January of the year in which their respective terms would terminate un-
der the provisions of this Act. A supervisor need not be a resident or
landowner of the District, but must be a resident of Willacy County, Texas.
Sec. 4. The assessor and collector of taxes in Willacy County shall,
ex officio, be the assessor and collector of taxes for the District, and ex-
cept as herein provided, taxes shall be levied and collected under the
provisions of the General Laws applicable to fresh water supply districts.
The blanks used by the assessor and collector to accept rendition of prop-
erty for taxation by Willacy County shall be printed so as to show that
the rendition of property situated in the District is also made for the
benefit of the District. The property which is situated in the District
shall be clearly indicated on the approved tax rolls in the office of the
assessor and collector. The value of property situated in the District as
equalized by the Board of Equalization of Willacy County, finally ap-
proved by the Commissioners Court of Willacy County and as extended
on the approved tax rolls of Willacy County, shall constitute the assessed
values of such property for purposes of District taxation. Within five
(5) days after the approval of the report of the Board of Equalization by
the Commissioners Court of Willacy County, said assessor and collector
of taxes shall certify to the District the total assessed valuation of prop-
erty situated in the District according to such approved rolls. For his
services rendered to the District in assessing and collecting taxes for
the District, the Willacy County Tax Assessor and Collector shall be en-
titled to deduct from all taxes thus collected on the current year's tax
rolls a sum as agreed upon by the Board of Supervisors, not to exceed the
amount provided by the General Laws relative to the assessment, levy
and collection of ad valorem taxes, and for the collection of delinquent
taxes compensation in like manner to that which he receives in collecting
delinquent state and county taxes, provided that no duplicated charge
shall be made for costs of suit where a charge is made in reference to
enforcement of state and county taxes.
Sec. 5. Land, contiguous to said District, may be added to said Dis-
trict not only in the manner now provided by Chapter 4, Title 128, Re-
vised Civil Statutes of Texas, 1925, as amended, but also land may be
added to such District and become a part thereof upon petition of the
owner or owners thereof in the following manner: the owner or owners
of the land shall file with the Board of Supervisors a petition praying that
the lands described be added to and become a part of said District, and
said petition may describe said land by metes and bounds or by lot and
block number and shall be signed and executed in the same manner pro-
vided by law for the conveyance of real estate. Such petition shall be
heard and considered by the Board of Supervisors and may be granted
and said land added to the District if same is considered to be to the ad-Ch. 4
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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/m1/342/?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.