81R3224 SLB-D
By: Menendez H.B. No. 393
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the Bexar Metropolitan Water District.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. DISTRICT TO BE DISSOLVED. The Bexar
Metropolitan Water District shall be dissolved as provided by this
Act.
SECTION 2. TEMPORARY BOARD; APPOINTMENT. The term of each
person who is serving as a director of the Bexar Metropolitan Water
District on the effective date of this Act expires on that date. As
soon as practicable after the effective date of this Act, the Bexar
County Commissioners Court shall appoint five persons to serve as
temporary directors for the purposes described by Section 3 of this
Act.
SECTION 3. TEMPORARY BOARD; DUTIES. (a) The temporary
board appointed under Section 2 of this Act shall transfer or assign
the rights and duties of the Bexar Metropolitan Water District
associated with the provision of water services, including existing
contracts, assets, and liabilities of the district, to one or more
appropriate entities in such a manner that service to the existing
customers of the Bexar Metropolitan Water District is not
interrupted.
(b) All transfers and assignments under this section must be
completed by January 1, 2011.
SECTION 4. DISSOLUTION. (a) The Bexar Metropolitan Water
District is dissolved on January 1, 2011.
(b) Any unsatisfied debt or legally established liability
of the district shall be a charge on the assets transferred until
paid.
SECTION 5. REPEALER. Effective January 1, 2011, Chapter
306, Acts of the 49th Legislature, Regular Session, 1945, is
repealed.
SECTION 6. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Act takes effect September
1, 2009.