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: 521
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STATE HISTORICAL SURVEY COMMITTEE
ing 30o a new Section thereto to be known as Section 16A, to read as fol-
lows:
"Sec. 16A. The Commission is hereby authorized to acquire by gift,
devise, purchase, or by its general power of eminent domain set out in
Section 6 above, any lands on which are situated historic buildings, sites,
or landmarks of state-wide historical significance associated with historic
events or personalities, or prehistoric ruins, burial grounds, archaeological
or vertebrate paleontological sites, sites including fossilized footprints,
inscriptions made by human agency, or any other archaeological, paleonto-
logical, or historical feature, within the limits of the State of Texas. The
right of eminent domain conferred above'as relating to historical sites,
buildings, and structures shall not be exercised except upon a proper show-
ing that it is necessary to prevent destruction or deterioration of the his-
torical site, building or structure. The Commission is hereby author-
ized to request from the Texas State Historical Survey Committee a cer-
tification or authentication of the worthiness of preservation of the fea-
tures listed above."
Sec. 3. All laws in conflict herewith are hereby repealed to the ex-
tent of such conflict.
Sec. 4. The fact, that delay will lead to a further loss of our state's
heritage and culture through the deterioration or neglect of historic or
prehistoric buildings or sites and to the state historical marker program
within this state, creates an emergency and an imperative public neces-
sity that the Constitutional Rule requiring bills to be read on three sev-
eral days in each House be suspended, and said Rule is hereby suspended;
and that this Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its pas-
sage, and it is so enacted.
Passed the Senate, April 9, 1963, by a viva voce vote; passed the House,
May 8, 1963, by a non-record vote.
Approved May 21, 1963.
Effective 90 days after May 24, 1963, date of adjournment.
HISTORICAL SURVEY COMMITTEE
CHAPTER 195
S. B. No. 240
An Act amending Sections 9 and 12 of Chapter 500, Acts of the 55th Legislature,
1957 (compiled as Sections 9 and 12 of Article 6145, Vernon's Texas Civil
Statutes); providing for duties of the Texas State Historical Survey Com-
mittee; and declaring an emergency.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas:
Section 1. Section 9 of Chapter 500, Acts of the 55th Legislature,
1957, is hereby amended 31 to read as follows:
"Sec. 9. The Committee shall give direction and coordination to the
state historical marker program, and in order to assure a degree of uni-
formity and quality of historical markers, monuments, and medallions
within the State of Texas, shall review, pass upon or reject the final form,
dimensions, substance of and inscriptions or illustrations on any his-
30. Vernon's Ann.Civ.St. art. 678m, j 16A.
31. Vernon's Ann.Civ.St. art. 6145, 9.
521Ch. 195
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