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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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AN ACT
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relating to special purpose territory of the Orange County |
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Navigation and Port District of Orange County, Texas. |
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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SECTION 1. Chapter 5018, Special District Local Laws Code, |
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as effective April 1, 2021, is amended by adding Subchapter F to |
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read as follows: |
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SUBCHAPTER F. SPECIAL PURPOSE AREA |
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Sec. 5018.0301. DEFINITION. In this subchapter, "special |
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purpose area" means the territory described by Section 2 of the Act |
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enacting this subchapter. |
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Sec. 5018.0302. REPORTING OF CARGO AND VESSEL MOVEMENTS. |
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(a) Waterborne commercial cargo and vessel movements originating |
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in or departing from the special purpose area may be attributed as |
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waterborne commercial cargo or vessel movements originating in or |
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departing from the Port of Beaumont Navigation District of |
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Jefferson County, Texas, for the purpose of reporting to the United |
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States Army Corps of Engineers under applicable federal law. |
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(b) Waterborne commercial cargo and vessel movements |
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originating in or departing from the territory of the district not |
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including the special purpose area may be attributed as waterborne |
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commercial cargo or vessel movements originating in or departing |
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from the district for the purpose of reporting to the United States |
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Army Corps of Engineers under applicable federal law. |
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SECTION 2. The following tract is designated as a special |
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purpose area for the purposes of Subchapter F, Chapter 5018, |
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Special District Local Laws Code, as added by this Act: |
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BEING 265.4 ± acres of land, part of the Neches River, the |
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William Stephenson Survey, Abstract No. 23, and the Gilbert |
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Stevenson Survey, Abstract No. 167, Orange County, Texas; being all |
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of a (Called 250) acre tract of land, known as Tract 12, described |
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in a deed to Port of Beaumont Navigation District, recorded in |
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Volume 123, Page 376, Deed Records, Orange County, Texas, and all of |
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a (Called 108.9935) acre tract, described in a Quitclaim Deed to the |
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Port of Beaumont Navigation District, recorded in Volume 955, Page |
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34, Official Public Records, Orange County, Texas; said 265.4 ± |
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acre tract being more fully described by metes and follows as |
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follows, to wit: |
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BEGINNING at a half-inch steel rod, capped and marked |
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"SOUTEX", found on the southeasterly line of a 225' wide Kansas City |
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Southern Railway Company right of way, formerly Texarkana & Fort |
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Smith Railway Company, and the West line of a (Called 496.00) acre |
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tract of land, known as Parcel 1, described in a deed to Optimus |
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Steel, LLC, recorded in File No. 458665, Official Public Records, |
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Orange County, Texas, for the most northerly corner of the herein |
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described tract; said capped rod having coordinates of N: |
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10052007.85, E: 4274200.44; |
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THENCE, South 05 deg., 58 min., 02 sec., East, on the West |
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line of the (Called 496.00) acre tract, a distance of 1894.32' to a |
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3" steel pipe found for corner on the common line of the Gilbert |
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Stevenson Survey, Abstract No. 167 and the William Stephenson |
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Survey, Abstract No. 23; said steel pipe having coordinates of N: |
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10050123.79, E: 4274397.37; |
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THENCE, South 06 deg., 06 min., 36 sec., East, continuing on |
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the West line of the (Called 496.00) acre tract, and an extension |
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thereof, at 2271.95' passing a 1" steel pipe found for reference, |
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and continuing a total distance of 2729.68'± to a point on the |
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thread of the Neches River, for the Southeast corner of the herein |
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described tract; said point for corner being on the current |
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boundary of the Port of Beaumont Navigation District; |
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THENCE, in a northwesterly direction, on the thread of the |
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Neches River and the current limits of the Port of Beaumont |
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Navigation District, a distance of 5143'± to a point on the |
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southeasterly line of the 225' wide Kansas City Southern Railway |
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Company right of way, for the Southwest corner of the herein |
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described tract; |
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THENCE, North 45 deg. 36 min. 40 sec East, on the |
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southeasterly line of said Kansas City Southern Railway Company |
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right of way, a distance of 386.45'± to a point for corner; |
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THENCE, continuing on the southeasterly line of said Kansas |
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City Southern Railway Company right of way, on the arc of a curve to |
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the right, having a radius of 2785.00', an arc length of 477.92', a |
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chord bearing of North 50 deg., 07 min., 07 sec., East, a chord |
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distance of 477.33' to a point for corner; |
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THENCE, North 55 deg., 02 min., 05 sec., East, continuing on |
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the southeasterly line of said Kansas City Southern Railway right |
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of way, a distance of 4430.21' to the POINT OF BEGINNING and |
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containing 265.4 ± acres of land and water, more or less. |
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SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
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a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
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provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
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Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
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Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |
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