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OFFICE OF ITS NiliMBERS, PROVIDING FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF THEIR
SUCCESSORS, VESTING THE CONTROL AND SUPERVISION OF .THE CITY OF
LUBBOCK'S AIR~ORT IN SAID BOA~, RROVIDING FOR THE SETTING ASIDE
OF FUNDS FOR ITS MAINTENANCE, AND THE REMOVAL OF MEMBERS OF SAID
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF LUB-
BOOK, TEXAS:
SEC. 1.
There is hereby created and established an Airport Board to
be composed of three members, each of whom shall be resident
citizens of the City of Lubbock, Texas, and said board shall be
officially designated as theJ 11 Airport Board" of the City of
Lubbock, Texas. The members of said Board shall be appointed
by the City Commission of the City of Lubbock, Texas, and shall
hold their office for a term of three years, except that the
members first selected shall hold office for terms of 1, 2 and 3
years respectively, the term of each to be determined by lot,
and thereafter their successors shall hold office for three years,
and until their successors are appointed; and the general control,
supervision and management of the municipal airport owned at
this time by the City of Lubbock, and any and all other airports
that may hereafter be acquired by the City of Lubbock, is hereby
vested in said Airport Board, and all funds set apart by the
City Cornmdssion of the City of Lubbock for said Airport shall be -,_ __ _
under the control of said Board, and shall be spent by said
board by a~d with the advice and consent of the City Commission.
Any two of said members meeting together shall constitute a quorum
for the transaction of business.
SEC. 2.
No salary or compensation of any sort shall be paid to
the members of said Airport Board for 1their services.
SEC. 3.
Upon the death, resignation, removal or
term of office of any of the members of said
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remaining members shall nominate a third member for his successor, and
u~on approval by the City Commission of such nomination, such person
shall becoma a member of said Board, and shall hold his position for
~ a ter.m of three years, provided that if it appears to the City Com-
mission that the person so nominated is an unfit or unsuitable person
for such board, the City Commission shall appoint a board member of
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its own choice.
SEC. 4.
When the City Commission of the City of LUbbock has appointed
three persons to compose the Airport Board of the City of ~ubbock, said
Board, shall, as soon thereafter as practicable, meet and organize and
shall appoint one of its members as Chairman, and one of its members
as Secretary, and it shall be the duty of the Chairman to preside at
all meetings of the Board, and the Secretary shall keep a record of
all the proceedings of said Board, Which shall upon the request of the
City Commission be delivered to it for its inspection and review.
SEC. 5.
All moneys appropriated out of the general funds each fiscal
or current year for the support and ·maintenance of the municipal air-
port shall be delivered to the Airport Board and their receipt taken
there~or, and warrants on said funds shall be drawn by the Airport
Board upon the signature of the Chairman of said Board, and no debt
shall be contracted by said Airport Board nor any member thereof on
account of the use and operation of said municipal airport unless the
same is so ~irected and authorized by the City Commission, nor shall
any debts ever be created by said Airport Board on account of the main-
tenance and operation of the same in excess of the appropriation for
such purposes for the current year.
SEC. 6.
The City Commission of the City of Lubbock shall annually
apropriate out of the general fund such amounts as in its judgment
will be necessary to properly maintain its municipal airport.
SEC. 7.
It is hereby made the duty of the ~irport Board to receive
and account for all moneys received at the airport upon the sale of oil
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and gasoline and rentals and any and all other revenues that may be re-
ceived by them, or such employees as they may have under their direction.
SEC. 8.
The City Commission is hereby vested with full authority to
remove all or any of the members of said Airport Board found to be in-
comp~tent, unfit and unsuitable to serve upon said Board.
S E C. 9.
The Airport Board shall make reports of the expenditures of said
funds entrusted to them from time to time as requested by the City Com-
mission, and shall make annual reports of the receipts and disbursements
of ·all funds coming into their hands for the support and maintenance of
the Cityts municipal airport, which report shall be filed with the City
Secretary and shall be open to public inspection at all times.
SEC. 10.
It is hereby made the duty of the City Auditor of the City
of Lubbock to audit the books of the Airport Board once each months, ---
and it is so ordered.
Passed and Approved first reading this the 22nd day of
_J_u_n_e ______ , A. D. 1939.
Passed and Approved second and final reading, this the 13th
day of _J_u_l_y _____ , A. D. 1939.
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