By Deshotel H.B. No. 3554
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to correcting the statutory description of the boundaries
1-3 of the Port Arthur Navigation District.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 1, Chapter 197, Acts of the 58th
1-6 Legislature, Regular Session, 1963, as amended, is amended to read
1-7 as follows:
1-8 Sec. 1. There is hereby created within the State of Texas,
1-9 in addition to the districts into which the state has heretofore
1-10 been divided, a port district to be known as the Port of Port
1-11 Arthur Navigation District of Jefferson County, Texas, situated in
1-12 Jefferson County, Texas, with boundaries as hereinafter set out
1-13 (hereinafter called the district). Such district shall be and is
1-14 hereby declared to be a governmental agency and body politic and
1-15 corporate with the powers of government and with the authority to
1-16 exercise the rights, privileges and functions hereinafter
1-17 specified, and the creation of such district is hereby determined
1-18 to be essential to the accomplishment of the purposes of Section
1-19 59, of Article 16, of the Constitution of the State of Texas,
1-20 including (to the extent hereinafter authorized) the improvement of
1-21 navigation and the maintenance, development, extension and
2-1 improvement of port facilities, wharf and dock facilities, and the
2-2 development of the Port of Port Arthur within the boundaries
2-3 thereof as hereby established, which is declared to be essential to
2-4 the general welfare of the State of Texas for the development of
2-5 maritime shipping to and from its ports, and in the interest of
2-6 national defense; the Port of Port Arthur being strategically
2-7 located on the Gulf Coast with an inland-protected harbor and in a
2-8 rapidly developing industrial area wherein shipyards and
2-9 shipstoring basins are located, and the creation of said port
2-10 district will result in material benefits and improvements to the
2-11 territory included therein and in the increase of taxable values of
2-12 property included therein, and result in material benefit to that
2-13 section of the state in which same is located.
2-14 The boundaries of said district in Jefferson County, Texas,
2-15 are as follows:
2-16 "BEGINNING at a point of the junction of the center line of
2-17 the rights-of-way of State Highway 87 and the city limits line of
2-18 the City of Port Arthur (as it existed on April 20, 1963) in the
2-19 Neches River;
2-20 THENCE following the city limit line of the City of Port
2-21 Arthur (as it existed on April 20, 1963) in the Neches River,
2-22 southward and eastward to a point in the geographic middle of the
2-23 Neches River at its entrance into Sabine Lake;
2-24 THENCE continue to follow southward and eastward, the city
2-25 limit line of the City of Port Arthur, (as it existed on January 1,
3-1 1974) to the point of junction with the geographic middle of Sabine
3-2 Lake;
3-3 THENCE southward and westward along the center line of Sabine
3-4 Lake to a point due east [west] of the junction of the center line
3-5 of the Intracoastal Canal and the center line of the Sabine-Neches
3-6 Ship Canal;
3-7 THENCE due west to the center line of the Intracoastal Canal
3-8 at a point of its junction with the center line of the
3-9 Sabine-Neches Ship Canal;
3-10 THENCE westward along the center line of the Intracoastal
3-11 Canal to its junction with the center line of Jefferson County
3-12 Drainage District #7 Outfall Canal;
3-13 THENCE northward along the center line of Jefferson County
3-14 Drainage District #7 Outfall Canal to its junction with the center
3-15 line of Taylor's Bayou;
3-16 THENCE westward and northward along the center line of
3-17 Taylor's Bayou to its junction with the center line of Rodair
3-18 Gully;
3-19 THENCE eastward along the center line of Rodair Gully to the
3-20 center line of the rights-of-way of the Viterbo [Vitterbo] Road;
3-21 THENCE eastward along the center line of the rights-of-way of
3-22 the Viterbo [Vitterbo] Road to the center line of the rights-of-way
3-23 line of State Highway 69;
3-24 THENCE southward along the center line of the rights-of-way
3-25 of State Highway 69 to the center line of the rights-of-way of FM
4-1 Road No. 365;
4-2 THENCE eastward along the center line of the rights-of-way of
4-3 FM Road No. 365 to the center line of the rights-of-way of State
4-4 Highway 347;
4-5 THENCE southward along the center line of the rights-of-way
4-6 of State Highway 347 to the center line of the rights-of-way of
4-7 State Highway 73;
4-8 THENCE [southward and] eastward along the center line of the
4-9 rights-of-way of State Highway 73 to the center line of the
4-10 rights-of-way of State Highway 87;
4-11 THENCE northward and eastward along the center line of the
4-12 rights-of-way of State Highway 87 to its junction with the city
4-13 limit line of the City of Port Arthur (as it existed on April 20,
4-14 1963) in the Neches River, the point of beginning."
4-15 SECTION 2. Proof of publication of the constitutional notice
4-16 required in the enactment hereof under the provisions of Article
4-17 XVI, Section 59(d), of the Texas Constitution has been made in the
4-18 manner provided therein, and a copy of said notice and the bill as
4-19 originally introduced have been delivered to the Governor of the
4-20 State of Texas as required by such constitutional provision, and
4-21 such notice and delivery are hereby found and declared to be proper
4-22 and sufficient to satisfy such requirement.
4-23 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
4-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
4-25 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
5-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
5-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
5-3 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
5-4 passage, and it is so enacted.