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Sec. 1. By this Act it is expressly declared to be a State policy that the encouragement and stimulation of new uses for cotton shall be a matter of State-wide importance and concern and that the various agencies of the State Government, and more particularly the various State agricultural departments, agencies, school…
All bonds issued under and by virtue of the Federal Farm Loan Act, approved by the President of the United States, July 17, 1916, and all consolidated bonds, bonds, debentures, and other similar obligations issued by virtue of the Farm Credit Act of 1971, P.L. 92-181, approved by the President of the United States, Dec…
Hereafter, all mortgages, bonds, debentures, notes, collateral trust certificates, and other such evidences of indebtedness, issued or that hereafter may be issued under the terms and provisions of the National Housing Act, approved by the President of the United States on June 27, 1934, as amended and as may hereafter…
Savings and loan associations, banks, insurance companies, and other corporations or other organizations, similar or dissimilar, are hereby authorized to lend, and to buy and sell for their own account, obligations in which except as to value of property and dignity of lien thereon securing the obligation it is otherwi…
Sec. 1. APPLICATION. This article applies to any municipality having a population of 1.5 million or more. Sec. 2. PROCEEDINGS VALIDATED. The governmental acts and proceedings of a municipality relating to a bond election that was held before December 1, 1991, and at which the ballot proposition was approved by more tha…
Section 1. AUTHORIZATION; PURPOSE. Notwithstanding any restrictions on investments contained in any laws of this State, the State and all public officers, municipal corporations, political subdivisions, and public bodies, all banks, bankers, trust companies, savings banks and institutions, building and loan association…
Sec. 1. Repealed by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 166, Sec. 9, eff. Sept. 1, 1997. Sec. 2. DEFINITIONS. When used in this Act, the term "public utility" or "utility" shall mean and include the following: (a) Any private corporation doing business in Texas, and having the right of eminent domain, and engaged in the business…
Corporations may be formed wholly for the purpose of providing housing for families of low income and/or for reconstruction of slum areas, provided such corporations are regulated by state or municipal law, as hereinafter provided as to rents, charges, capital structure, rate of return and areas and methods of operatio…
Applications for charters for corporations, the creation of which are authorized under the provisions of this Act, in addition to requirements now prescribed by law, must be accompanied by a certificate executed by the officials of the governing body of the municipality in which said corporation contemplate owning or o…
Any corporation organized under the provisions of this Act shall have, except as herein provided, all the powers of private domestic corporations which have been heretofore organized under the provisions of the laws of the State of Texas, and shall pay all fees and taxes which are required to be paid by private domesti…
The rents, charges, capital structure, rate of return and areas and method of operation of any corporation organized under the provisions of Section 1 hereof shall be regulated, as hereinafter provided, by the governing body of any municipality or county where the properties to be owned or operated are situated outside…
The governing body fixing the rate of return for a corporation organized under the provisions of Section 1 of this Act shall not fix such rates of return to yield a net amount in excess of eight (8%) per cent upon the invested capital of such corporation.
Such governing body may establish rules and regulations governing its procedure for hearings in fixing or amending orders or ordinances fixing the rents, charges, rate of return and areas and methods of corporations organized under the provisions of Section 1 hereof, and before any building is erected by such corporati…
Any corporation organized and existing under and by virtue of provisions of Section 1 hereof, which shall be dissatisfied with any rents, charges, rate of return and area and method of operation which is fixed or may be fixed or may be changed by any governing body, may, by giving to such governing body ten (10) days n…
Any corporation created under the provisions of this Act, in addition to the powers herein granted, shall have full power and authority to do all things necessary to secure loans from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation under the rules and regulations prescribed by said Reconstruction Finance Corporation.
Provided that nothing in this Act shall in anywise affect or nullify the Anti-trust laws of this State.
If any agent, servant, officer or employee of any corporation created under the provisions of this Act shall wilfully violate any order, rule, regulation or ordinance fixing rents, charges, rate of return, areas and method of operation, the District Court of the County in which the property of such corporation is situa…
Any banking corporation in the State of Texas selected as the depository bank for County Funds, or for the funds of any School District in Texas, including Common School Districts, Independent School Districts, Rural High School Districts, Consolidated School Districts, and any other School District in Texas, or funds…
Section 1. The Board of Regents of The University of Texas is hereby authorized and empowered to select a tract of land not exceeding sixty-five (65) acres upon the campus of Texas Western College, El Paso, El Paso County, Texas, a part of The University of Texas System, and to convey such tract so selected to the Coun…
Section 1. (a) The Board of Regents of The University of Texas System is hereby authorized to enter into a contract with any political subdivision of the State of Texas located in El Paso County for the conveyance to the political subdivision of a tract or tracts of land owned by The University of Texas at El Paso, a c…
Section 1. The Board of Regents of The University of Texas is hereby authorized to improve the facilities of the Institute of Marine Science, Port Aransas, Texas, an organized research unit of the Main University, Austin, Texas, by constructing and equipping a Research Building on the premises now occupied by the Insti…
Section 1. AUTHORITY OF BOARD OF REGENTS; TRADE AND EXCHANGE; DESCRIPTION; DEED. The Board of Regents of The University of Texas is hereby authorized and empowered to trade and exchange not more than ten (10) acres of land on the western corner of the campus of The University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dal…
Section 1. The Board of Directors of Texas A & M University is authorized to convey to the United States a sufficient quantity of land on, or conveniently located in reference to, the campus of Texas A & M University for the construction thereon, and for incidental use of said land, at the expense of the United States,…
In consideration of the benefits derived from and accruing to the State of Texas and Texas Technological College from the installation, construction, reconstruction, operation, maintenance and repair of a fire alarm signal system to be installed, constructed, reconstructed, operated and maintained to promote the welfar…
In consideration of the benefits which will accrue to the State of Texas and Texas Technological College from the construction, reconstruction, operation and maintenance by the City of Lubbock, a Home Rule Municipal Corporation, of a permanent water line together with all appurtenances thereto, in, under and across cer…