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TEXAS ALMANAC.-1952-1953.
Article III.-(Continued.)
one (1) year immediately preceding such
application.
The Legislature shall have the authority to
accept from the Federal Government of the
United States such financial aid for the as-
sistance of the needy aged, needy blind, and
needy children as such government may offer
not inconsistent with restrictions herein set
forth; provided, however, that the amount of
such assistance out of State funds to each
person assisted shall never exceed the amount
so expended out of federal funds; and, pro-
vided further, that the total amount of money
to be expended out of State funds for such
assistance to the needy aged, needy blind, and
needy children shall never exceed the sum of
thirty-five million dollars ($35,000,000) per
year.
Should the Legislature enact enabling laws
and provide an additional appropriation here-
to in anticipation of the adoption of this
amendment, such acts shall not be invalid by
reason of their anticipatory character.
[Note.--The foregoing Sec. 51-a of Art. III,
an amendment, was submitted by the Forty-ninth
Legislature and adopted in an election Aug. 25,
1945. It supplanted four earlier amendments, as
follows: An original Sec. 51-a which provided for
issuance of $20,000,000 in state bonds for relief
(the so-called "Bread Bonds"), this amendment
having been submitted by the Forty-third Legis-
lature and adopted Aug. 26, 1933; and also Secs.
51-b, 51-c, and 51-d, which originally prml,
for old-age pensions and other welfare measurt-
adopted in elections Aug. 24, 1935, and Aug. 23,
1937. Because of this consolidation, the Consti-
tution now skips from Sec. 51-a to Sec. 51-e.1
Sec. 51-e. City and Town Pension System.-
Each incorporated city and town in this
State shall have the power and authority to
provide a system of retirement and disability
pensions for its appointive officers and em-
ployees who have become disabled as a direct
and proximate result of the performance of
their duties, or have passed their sixty-fifth
birthday, or have been employed by such city
or town for more than twenty-five (25) years
and have passed their sixtieth birthday, when
and if, but only when and if such system has
been approved at an election by the qualified
voters of such city or town entitled to vote
on the question of issuance of tax-supported
bonds; provided, that no city or town shall
contribute more than the equivalent of seven
and one half (7 %) per centum of salaries
and wages of the officers and employees en-
titled to participate in its pension system,
and that sai officers and employees shall
contribute a like amount; and this amend-
ment shall not reduce the authority nor
duty of any city or town otherwise existing.
[Note.-The foregoing Sec. 51-e of Art. III,
an amendment, was added for the stated purpose
of providing retirement pay for municipal em-
ployees. Submitted by Forty-eighth Legislature
and adopted in an election Nov. 7, 1944.]
Sec. 51-f. Local Pension Plans.-The Legis-
lature of this State shall have the authority
to provide for a system of retirement and
disability pensions for appointive officers and
employees of cities and towns to operate
state-wide or by districts under such a plan
and program as the Legislature shall direct
and shall provide that participation therein
by cities and towns shall be voluntary; pro-
vided, that the Legislature shall never make
an appropriation to pay any of the cost of
any system authorized by this section.
[Note.-The foregoing Sec. 51-f of Art. III, an
amendment, was added to amplify Sec. 51-e and
set stated restrictions. Submitted by Forty-eighth
Legislature and adopted in an election Nov. 7,
1944.]Sec. 52. Counties, Cities, Etc., Not Author-
ized to Grant Money or Become Stockhold-
ers; Exceptions.-The Legislature shall have
no power to authorize any county, city, town
or other political corporation or subdivision
of the State to lend its credit or to grant
public money or thing of value in aid of, or
to any individual, association or corporation
whatsoever, or to become a stockholder in
such corporation, association or company,
provided, however, that under legislative pro-
vision any county, any political subdivision
of a county, any number of adjoining coun-
ties or any political subdivision of the State
or any defined district now or hereafter to be
described and defined within the State of
Texas, and which may or may not include
towns, villages or municipal corporations,
upon a vote of a two-thirds majority of the
resident property taxpayers voting thereon
who are qualified electors of such district or
territory to be affected thereby, in addition
to all other debts, may issue bonds or other-
wise lend its credit in any amount not to ex-
ceed one fourth of the assessed valuation of
the real property of such district or territory,
except that the total bonded indebtedness of
any city or town shall never exceed the limits
imposed by other provisions of this Consti-
tution, and levy and collect such taxes to pay
the interest thereon and provide a sinking
fund for the redemption thereof, as the Legis-
1aturP ry authorize, and in such manner
t - , uthorize the same, for the follow-
:s, to wit:
one improvement of rivers, creeks and
streams to prevent overflows and to permit
of navigation thereof or irrigation thereof,
or in aid of such purposes.
(b)- The construction and maintenance of
pools, lakes, reservoirs, dams, canals and
waterways for the purpose of irrigation.
drainage or navigation, or in aid thereof.
(c) The construction, maintenance and op-
eration of macadamized, graveled or paved
roads and turnpikes or in aid thereof.
[Note.-The foregoing Sec. 52 of Art. III is an
amended section, the amendment authorizing for-
mation of districts for issuance of bonds for
leveeing, drainage, irrigation, highway construc-
tion and other public improvements. Submitted
by Twenty-eighth Legislature (1903), adopted in
election, Nov. 8, 1904, and proclaimed Dec. 29,
1904.1
*Sec. 52-d. Harris County Road Districts.-
Upon the vote of a majority of the resident
qualified electors owning rendered taxable
property therein so authorizing, a county or
road district may collect an annual tax for
a period not exceeding five (5) years to cre-
ate a fund for constructing lasting and per-
manent roads and bridges or both. No con-
tract involving the expenditure of any of such
fund shall be valid unless, when it is made,
money shall be on hand in such fund.
At such election, the- Commissioners Court
shall submit for adoption a road plan and
designate the amount, of special tax to be
levied; the number of years said tax is to
be levied; the location, description and char-
acter of the roads and bridges; and the esti-
mated cost thereof. The funds raised by
such taxes shall not be used for purposes
other than those specified in the plan sub-
mitted to the voters. Elections may be held
from time to time to extend or discontinue
said plan or to increase or diminish said tax.
*Note that Secs. 52-a, 52-b and 52c are omitted
Such sections never existed. Obviously, the desig-
nation; "See. 52-d," in Senate Joint Resolution
No. 16 of the Forty-fifth Legislature resulted from
confusion of a new section number with the
sequence of paragraphs "a, b and c" under Sec
52 immediately above. Some published texts of
the State Constitution give this as "Paragraph
d," under Sec. 52, as it might properly have been
designated, but SJR No. 16 definitely gives it as
a separate "-Sec. 52-d."
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