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: 522
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Ch. 195 58TH LEGISLATURE-REGULAR SESSION
torical marker, monument, or medallion before its erection by any coun-
ty, incorporated city, or the State Building Commission, within this state.
The Committee shall continue to assist and advise the State Building Com-
mission with regard to proper memorials and monuments to be erected,
repaired, and removed to new locations, and selection of sites therefor,
and the locating and marking of graves."
Sec. 2. Chapter 500, Acts of the 55th Legislature, 1957, is amended
by adding 32 a new Section 9a to read as follows:
"Sec. 9a. Pursuant to the purpose of Section 9 above, the Texas State
Historical Survey Committee is hereby authorized upon request of the
State Building Commission to certify the worthiness of preservation to
the State Building Commission of any historic buildings, sites, or land-
marks of state-wide historical significance associated with historic events
or personalities, or prehistoric ruin, burial ground, archaeological or verte-
brate paleontological site, or site including fossilized footprints, inscrip-
tions made by human agency, or any other archaeological, paleontological,
or historical feature within the limits of the State of Texas, to which a
majority of the Committee agrees."
Sec. 3. Section 12 of Chapter 500, Acts of the 55th Legislature, 1957,
is hereby amended 33 to read as follows:
"Sec. 12. It shall not be the purpose of this program to duplicate or
replace existing historical heritage organizations and activities but it is
the purpose to give leadership, coordination and service where it is needed
and where it is desired. The Committee shall exercise no authority over
any organization, agency or institution of the state, except as set out in
Section 9 above."
Sec. 4. The fact, that the provisions of this Act are necessary in or-
der to preserve historical and prehistorical ruins, burial grounds, archae-
ological and vertebrate paleontological sites, and to prevent loss to the
state historical marker program, within the State of Texas, creates 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 said Rule is hereby suspended; and that this Act shall
take effect and be in force from and after its passage, and it is so enacted.
Passed the Senate, March 21, 1963: Yeas 30, Nays 0; 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.
32. Vernon's Ann.Civ.St. art. 6145, 1 9a.
33. Vernon's Ann.Civ.St. art. 6145, 12.522
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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/m1/858/?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.