Texas Constitution, April 2008 Page: 60
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Art. 3 Sec. 54
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created against any county or municipality of the State, under any agreement or
contract, made without authority of law.
Sec. 54. (Repealed Nov. 2, 1999.) (TEMPORARY TRANSITION
PROVISIONS for Sec. 54: See Appendix, Note 1.)
Sec. 55. RELEASE OR EXTINGUISHMENT OF INDEBTEDNESS
TO STATE, COUNTY, SUBDIVISION, OR MUNICIPAL CORPORATION.
The Legislature shall have no power to release or extinguish, or to authorize
the releasing or extinguishing, in whole or in part, the indebtedness, liability or
obligation of any corporation or individual, to this State or to any county or defined
subdivision thereof, or other municipal corporation therein, except delinquent
taxes which have been due for a period of at least ten years. (Amended Nov. 8,
1932.)
Sec. 56. LOCAL AND SPECIAL LAWS. (a) The Legislature shall not,
except as otherwise provided in this Constitution, pass any local or special law,
authorizing:
(1) the creation, extension or impairing of liens;
(2) regulating the affairs of counties, cities, towns, wards or school
districts;
(3) changing the names of persons or places; 5
(4) changing the venue in civil or criminal cases;
(5) authorizing the laying out, opening, altering or maintaining of roads,
highways, streets or alleys;
(6) relating to ferries or bridges, or incorporating ferry or bridge companies,
except for the erection of bridges crossing streams which form boundaries between
this and any other State;
(7) vacating roads, town plats, streets or alleys;
(8) relating to cemeteries, grave-yards or public grounds not of the State; 5
(9) authorizing the adoption or legitimation of children;
(10) locating or changing county seats;
(11) incorporating cities, towns or villages, or changing their charters;
(12) for the opening and conducting of elections, or fixing or changing the
places of voting; 5
(13) granting divorces;
(14) creating offices, or prescribing the powers and duties of officers, in
counties, cities, towns, election or school districts;
(15) changing the law of descent or succession;
(16) regulating the practice or jurisdiction of, or changing the rules of 5
evidence in any judicial proceeding or inquiry before courts, justices of the peace,
sheriffs, commissioners, arbitrators or other tribunals, or providing or changing
methods for the collection of debts, or the enforcing of judgments, or prescribing
the effect of judicial sales of real estate;
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