Bulletin (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE LEVEE IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT ACT OF GENERAL LAWS OP 1915, THIRTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, REGULAR SESSION CHAPTER 146 Section Commissioners' courts may establish levee improvement districts; which may or may not issue bonds; may construct or acquire levee improve- ments, etc 1 Petition for the establishment of a dis- trict; the court to set date for hear- ing, and give notice thereof 2 Cash to be deposited on filing the peti- tion 3 The State Reclamation Engineer to be notified of the hearing; he shall ex- amine and report on the district 4 Hearing on the petition 5 Duty of the court on hearing 6 Procedure of levee improvement districts which do not desire to issue bonds; their relation to the State Reclamation Engineer 7 Levee improvement districts proposing to issue bonds shall proceed as here- inafter set out 8 Petition for a bond election 9 Cash to accompany the petition for an election; further deposits to be made if necessary 10 Notice of the election 11 Conduct of the election; qualifications of voters; form of ballot 12 Oath of voters 13 Canvass of the election returns; declaration of the result 14 Three district supervisors to be appointed; their compensation, etc 15 The supervisors to take oath 16 The supervisors to give bond 17 The supervisors to organize 18 A district engineer to be appointed; his compensation; he shall consult the State Reclamation Engineer, who shall assist him without charge; character of surveys and maps to be made by him 19 The district engineer to design the sys- tem of improvements, make profiles, estimates, etc., and submit a report to the commissioners court and the State Reclamation Engineer 20 Section Action of the State Reclamation Engineer on ...