82R5869 SLB-F
By: Hilderbran H.B. No. 1945
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the election of directors of the Real-Edwards
Conservation and Reclamation District.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 11, Chapter 341, Acts of the 56th
Legislature, Regular Session, 1959, is amended to read as follows:
Sec. 11. (a) The government and control of the District
shall be vested in a Board of Directors consisting of nine [(9)]
members. Directors serve staggered four-year terms expiring on
January 1 of odd-numbered years.
(b) The District shall hold an election on the uniform
election date in November of each even-numbered year to elect the
appropriate number of Directors. [There shall be held in the
District on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November in
each even-numbered year an election within the District for the
selection of Directors to succeed those whose terms expire on said
date. Such election shall be held in such voting boxes as are
designated by the Board of Directors, and notice of such election
shall be given by the Secretary of the Board of Directors by posting
in three (3) public places within the District a copy of the order
of the Board of Directors directing the time and places of holding
the election. No person shall be selected a Director unless he be
above the age of twenty-one (21) years and a resident within the
territorial limits of the District.]
(b-1) An applicant to be a candidate for election as a
Director must indicate on the application either:
(1) the position number of the District that the
person seeks to represent; or
(2) that the person seeks to run at large.
(b-2) To be eligible to be a candidate for Director position
number 1, 3, 5, or 7, a person must be a registered voter in Edwards
County.
(b-3) To be eligible to be a candidate for Director position
number 2, 4, 6, or 8, a person must be a registered voter in Real
County.
(b-4) To be eligible to be a candidate for the at-large
position, a person must be a registered voter in the District.
(c) Any vacancy occurring in the membership of the Board of
Directors shall be filled by the remaining members of the Board for
the unexpired term of such office.
(d) Before entering upon the duties of [his] office, each
member of the Board of Directors shall take the Constitutional oath
of office.
SECTION 2. (a) A member of the board of directors of the
Real-Edwards Conservation and Reclamation District serving on the
effective date of this Act shall continue in office until the
member's successor qualifies for office.
(b) At the election held November 6, 2012, four directors
shall be elected from positions 1, 2, 3, and 4.
(c) At the election held November 4, 2014, four directors
shall be elected from position numbers 5, 6, 7, and 8 and one
director elected at large.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2011.