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FORTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE-REGULAR SESSION. 219
the public interest, and privileges granted for the uses recognized
may be economically co-ordinated, achieving the maximum
of public value from this resource; and recognizing alike the
distinct regional necessities for water control and conservation,
and for control of harmful floods.
SEC. 6. The provisions of Section 2 of this Act shall not apply
to any stream which constitutes or defines the International
border or boundary between the United States of America and
the Republic of Mexico.
SEC. 7. Any law or laws or part or parts thereof in conflict
with the express provisions or the express purposes of this
Act shall be held of no force or effect and shall be in all things
held to have been repealed.
SEC. 8. If any part or parts of this Act shall be held in contravention
of the Constitution, such ineffective part or parts
thereof shall not be held to affect other parts in such provisions.
SEC. 9. Whereas, the conservation, control, storing preservation
and distribution of the ordinary flow, underflow, storm and
flood waters of the rivers and streams in Texas for State, municipal,
domestic, irrigation and manufacturing and processing purposes
is recognized as a public right and a public duty, essential
to the development of the State, municipalities and all sections
of Texas; and, whereas, the waters of the ordinary flow, underflow,
storm and flood waters of every river or natural stream,
canyon, ravine or water-shed within the State of Texas, are declared
by Law and recognized by the people as the property of
the State and are held by the State in trust for the public welfare,
to be allotted and appropriated in such manner as will
benefit the greatest number of people and result in the greatest
benefit to all the people of the State; and, whereas, it is the
public policy of the State and for the benefit of the greatest
number of people that in the appropriation of waters as herein
defined, the appropriation of water for domestic and municipal
uses shall be and remain superior to the rights of the State to
appropriate the same for all other purposes; and, whereas, the
importance of protecting the rights of the people in the appropriation
of the waters as defined herein and for the purposes
as herein defined, create an emergency and an imperative public
necessity that the Constitutional Rule requiring bills to be read
on three several days in each House be suspended and said Rule
is hereby suspended and this Act shall take effect and be in
force from and after its passage, and it is so enacted.
Approved May 18, 1931.
Effective May IS, 1931.
[NOTE: S. B. No. 93 passed the Senate by a vote of 27 yeas,
0 nays; passed the House by a vote of 109 yeas, 2 nays.]
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Gammel, Hans Peter Mareus Neilsen. The Laws of Texas, 1929-1931 [Volume 27], book, 1931; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth16362/m1/665/: accessed May 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .