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JUNIOR COLLEGE DISTRICTS
JUNIOR COLLEGE DISTRICTS--TERMS OF
OFFICE OF REGENTS
CHAPTER 15 1s
H. B. No. 320
An Act changing the terms of office of members of Boards of Regents of Junior
College Districts operating under Chapter 146, Acts of the Fifty-first Legis-
lature, 1949 (compiled as Article 28150, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), to
six (6) years; providing for the filling of vacancies; providing the provi-
sions of the Act applicable to Cisco Junior College. shall not become effec-
tive until January 1, 1964; providing that this Act shall be cumulative of
all other laws except in case of conflict; and declaring an emergency.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas:
Section 1. From and after the effective date of this Act, the terms
of office of members of the Boards of Regents of all Junior College Dis-
tricts presently operating under Chapter 146, Acts of the Fifty-first
Legislature, 1949 (compiled as Article 2815o, Vernon's Texas Civil
Statutes), shall be six (6) years.
Sec. 2. Immediately after this Act becomes effective, such board
members shall determine by lot the terms to be served. The three (3).
board members having the shortest remaining term unexpired at the ef-
fective date of this Act shall serve until the first Saturday in April of
the next even-numbered year, at which time three (3) board members
shall be elected for a term of six (6) years. Three (3) shall be so chosen
from those having the longest remaining term unexpired at the effective.
date of this Act, and those three (3) shall serve until the first Saturday in
April of the next even-numbered calendar year and for four (4) years
thereafter when three (3) shall be elected to serve for a term of six (6)
years. The remaining three (3) shall serve until the first Saturday in
April of the next even-numbered calendar year and for two (2) years
thereafter, when three (3) shall be elected for a term of six (6) years.
Thereafter, on the first Saturday in April of each even-numbered calen-
dar year three (3) board members shall be elected to serve for a term
of six (6) years. All elections held under the provisions of this Act
shall be held the first Saturday in April of even-numbered calendar years,
the first such election to be held on the first Saturday in April, 1964.
Sec. 3. The members of the board remaining after a vacancy occurs
shall fill the same for the unexpired term.
Sec. 4. Except as modified by this Act, all such elections in such
Junior College Districts shall be held in the manner and in conformity
with the provisions of law now applicable; provided, however, that this
Act shall not become effective as to Cisco Junior College until January 1,
1964.
Sec. 5. The provisions of this Act shall be cumulative of all gen-
eral laws on the subject not in conflict herewith, and where not other-
wise provided herein, such general laws shall apply, but in case of con-
flict the provisions of this Act shall control and be effective.
Sec. 6. The importance of this legislation and the crowded condition
of the Calendars in both Houses 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 this Rule is hereby13. Vernon's Ann.Civ.St. art. 2815o-lb.
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