H.B. No. 4652
 
 
 
 
AN ACT
  relating to the creation of the Montgomery County Municipal Utility
  District No. 208; granting a limited power of eminent domain;
  providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose
  assessments, fees, and taxes.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subtitle F, Title 6, Special District Local Laws
  Code, is amended by adding Chapter 7939A to read as follows:
  CHAPTER 7939A.  MONTGOMERY COUNTY MUNICIPAL UTILITY DISTRICT
  NO. 208
  SUBCHAPTER A.  GENERAL PROVISIONS
         Sec. 7939A.0101.  DEFINITIONS.  In this chapter:
               (1)  "Board" means the district's board of directors.
               (2)  "Commission" means the Texas Commission on
  Environmental Quality.
               (3)  "Director" means a board member.
               (4)  "District" means the Montgomery County Municipal
  Utility District No. 208.
         Sec. 7939A.0102.  NATURE OF DISTRICT.  The district is a
  municipal utility district created under Section 59, Article XVI,
  Texas Constitution.
         Sec. 7939A.0103.  CONFIRMATION AND DIRECTOR ELECTION
  REQUIRED.  The temporary directors shall hold an election to
  confirm the creation of the district and to elect five permanent
  directors as provided by Section 49.102, Water Code.
         Sec. 7939A.0104.  CONSENT OF MUNICIPALITY REQUIRED. The
  temporary directors may not hold an election under Section
  7939A.0103 until each municipality in whose corporate limits or
  extraterritorial jurisdiction the district is located has
  consented by ordinance or resolution to the creation of the
  district and to the inclusion of land in the district.
         Sec. 7939A.0105.  FINDINGS OF PUBLIC PURPOSE AND BENEFIT.
  (a)  The district is created to serve a public purpose and benefit.
         (b)  The district is created to accomplish the purposes of:
               (1)  a municipal utility district as provided by
  general law and Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution; and
               (2)  Section 52, Article III, Texas Constitution, that
  relate to the construction, acquisition, improvement, operation,
  or maintenance of macadamized, graveled, or paved roads, or
  improvements, including storm drainage, in aid of those roads.
         Sec. 7939A.0106.  INITIAL DISTRICT TERRITORY.  (a)  The
  district is initially composed of the territory described by
  Section 2 of the Act enacting this chapter.
         (b)  The boundaries and field notes contained in Section 2 of
  the Act enacting this chapter form a closure.  A mistake made in the
  field notes or in copying the field notes in the legislative process
  does not affect the district's:
               (1)  organization, existence, or validity;
               (2)  right to issue any type of bond for the purposes
  for which the district is created or to pay the principal of and
  interest on a bond;
               (3)  right to impose a tax; or
               (4)  legality or operation.
  SUBCHAPTER B.  BOARD OF DIRECTORS
         Sec. 7939A.0201.  GOVERNING BODY; TERMS.  (a)  The district
  is governed by a board of five elected directors.
         (b)  Except as provided by Section 7939A.0202, directors
  serve staggered four-year terms.
         Sec. 7939A.0202.  TEMPORARY DIRECTORS.  (a)  On or after
  September 1, 2021, the owner or owners of a majority of the assessed
  value of the real property in the district may submit a petition to
  the commission requesting that the commission appoint as temporary
  directors the five persons named in the petition.  The commission
  shall appoint as temporary directors the five persons named in the
  petition.
         (b)  Temporary directors serve until the earlier of:
               (1)  the date permanent directors are elected under
  Section 7939A.0103; or
               (2)  September 1, 2025.
         (c)  If permanent directors have not been elected under
  Section 7939A.0103 and the terms of the temporary directors have
  expired, successor temporary directors shall be appointed or
  reappointed as provided by Subsection (d) to serve terms that
  expire on the earlier of:
               (1)  the date permanent directors are elected under
  Section 7939A.0103; or
               (2)  the fourth anniversary of the date of the
  appointment or reappointment.
         (d)  If Subsection (c) applies, the owner or owners of a
  majority of the assessed value of the real property in the district
  may submit a petition to the commission requesting that the
  commission appoint as successor temporary directors the five
  persons named in the petition.  The commission shall appoint as
  successor temporary directors the five persons named in the
  petition.
  SUBCHAPTER C.  POWERS AND DUTIES
         Sec. 7939A.0301.  GENERAL POWERS AND DUTIES.  The district
  has the powers and duties necessary to accomplish the purposes for
  which the district is created.
         Sec. 7939A.0302.  MUNICIPAL UTILITY DISTRICT POWERS AND
  DUTIES.  The district has the powers and duties provided by the
  general law of this state, including Chapters 49 and 54, Water Code,
  applicable to municipal utility districts created under Section 59,
  Article XVI, Texas Constitution.
         Sec. 7939A.0303.  AUTHORITY FOR ROAD PROJECTS. Under
  Section 52, Article III, Texas Constitution, the district may
  design, acquire, construct, finance, issue bonds for, improve,
  operate, maintain, and convey to this state, a county, or a
  municipality for operation and maintenance macadamized, graveled,
  or paved roads, or improvements, including storm drainage, in aid
  of those roads.
         Sec. 7939A.0304.  ROAD STANDARDS AND REQUIREMENTS. (a) A
  road project must meet all applicable construction standards,
  zoning and subdivision requirements, and regulations of each
  municipality in whose corporate limits or extraterritorial
  jurisdiction the road project is located.
         (b)  If a road project is not located in the corporate limits
  or extraterritorial jurisdiction of a municipality, the road
  project must meet all applicable construction standards,
  subdivision requirements, and regulations of each county in which
  the road project is located.
         (c)  If the state will maintain and operate the road, the
  Texas Transportation Commission must approve the plans and
  specifications of the road project.
         Sec. 7939A.0305.  COMPLIANCE WITH MUNICIPAL CONSENT
  ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION.  The district shall comply with all
  applicable requirements of any ordinance or resolution that is
  adopted under Section 54.016 or 54.0165, Water Code, and that
  consents to the creation of the district or to the inclusion of land
  in the district.
         Sec. 7939A.0306.  DIVISION OF DISTRICT. (a)  The district
  may be divided into two or more new districts only if the district:
               (1)  has no outstanding bonded debt; and
               (2)  is not imposing ad valorem taxes.
         (b)  This chapter applies to any new district created by the
  division of the district, and a new district has all the powers and
  duties of the district.
         (c)  Any new district created by the division of the district
  may not, at the time the new district is created, contain any land
  outside the area described by Section 2 of the Act enacting this
  chapter.
         (d)  The board, on its own motion or on receipt of a petition
  signed by the owner or owners of a majority of the assessed value of
  the real property in the district, may adopt an order dividing the
  district.
         (e)  The board may adopt an order dividing the district
  before or after the date the board holds an election under Section
  7939A.0103 to confirm the district's creation.
         (f)  An order dividing the district shall:
               (1)  name each new district;
               (2)  include the metes and bounds description of the
  territory of each new district;
               (3)  appoint temporary directors for each new district;
  and
               (4)  provide for the division of assets and liabilities
  between or among the new districts.
         (g)  On or before the 30th day after the date of adoption of
  an order dividing the district, the district shall file the order
  with the commission and record the order in the real property
  records of each county in which the district is located.
         (h)  Any new district created by the division of the district
  shall hold a confirmation and directors' election as required by
  Section 7939A.0103.  If the voters of a new district do not confirm
  the creation of the new district, the assets, obligations,
  territory, and governance of the new district revert to the
  original district.
         (i)  Municipal consent to the creation of the district and to
  the inclusion of land in the district granted under Section
  7939A.0104 acts as municipal consent to the creation of any new
  district created by the division of the district and to the
  inclusion of land in the new district.
         (j)  Any new district created by the division of the district
  must hold an election as required by this chapter to obtain voter
  approval before the district may impose a maintenance tax or issue
  bonds payable wholly or partly from ad valorem taxes.
  SUBCHAPTER D.  GENERAL FINANCIAL PROVISIONS
         Sec. 7939A.0401.  ELECTIONS REGARDING TAXES OR BONDS. (a)
  The district may issue, without an election, bonds and other
  obligations secured by:
               (1)  revenue other than ad valorem taxes; or
               (2)  contract payments described by Section
  7939A.0403.
         (b)  The district must hold an election in the manner
  provided by Chapters 49 and 54, Water Code, to obtain voter approval
  before the district may impose an ad valorem tax or issue bonds
  payable from ad valorem taxes.
         (c)  The district may not issue bonds payable from ad valorem
  taxes to finance a road project unless the issuance is approved by a
  vote of a two-thirds majority of the district voters voting at an
  election held for that purpose.
         Sec. 7939A.0402.  OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE TAX.  (a)  If
  authorized at an election held under Section 7939A.0401, the
  district may impose an operation and maintenance tax on taxable
  property in the district in accordance with Section 49.107, Water
  Code.
         (b)  The board shall determine the tax rate.  The rate may not
  exceed the rate approved at the election.
         Sec. 7939A.0403.  CONTRACT TAXES.  (a)  In accordance with
  Section 49.108, Water Code, the district may impose a tax other than
  an operation and maintenance tax and use the revenue derived from
  the tax to make payments under a contract after the provisions of
  the contract have been approved by a majority of the district voters
  voting at an election held for that purpose.
         (b)  A contract approved by the district voters may contain a
  provision stating that the contract may be modified or amended by
  the board without further voter approval.
  SUBCHAPTER E.  BONDS AND OTHER OBLIGATIONS
         Sec. 7939A.0501.  AUTHORITY TO ISSUE BONDS AND OTHER
  OBLIGATIONS.  The district may issue bonds or other obligations
  payable wholly or partly from ad valorem taxes, impact fees,
  revenue, contract payments, grants, or other district money, or any
  combination of those sources, to pay for any authorized district
  purpose.
         Sec. 7939A.0502.  TAXES FOR BONDS. At the time the district
  issues bonds payable wholly or partly from ad valorem taxes, the
  board shall provide for the annual imposition of a continuing
  direct ad valorem tax, without limit as to rate or amount, while all
  or part of the bonds are outstanding as required and in the manner
  provided by Sections 54.601 and 54.602, Water Code.
         Sec. 7939A.0503.  BONDS FOR ROAD PROJECTS. At the time of
  issuance, the total principal amount of bonds or other obligations
  issued or incurred to finance road projects and payable from ad
  valorem taxes may not exceed one-fourth of the assessed value of the
  real property in the district.
         SECTION 2.  The Montgomery County Municipal Utility District
  No. 208 initially includes all the territory contained in the
  following area:
         Those four (4) tracts of land described as follows:
         (a)  CONROE TRACT ONE.
         Being forty-seven and nine hundred thirty-two-thousandths
  (47.932) acres of land in the James Edwards Survey, A-190,
  Montgomery County, Texas, also being a part of the J. W. Spiller
  tract in same and being more particularly described by metes and
  bounds as follows, to-wit.
         Beginning on the South boundary line of White Oak Manor
  Subdivision as shown in Volume 9, Page 46, Map Records, and being at
  a point S. 61° 32 50" W. 655.3 ft. and N. 76° 32' 45" W. 218.03 ft.
  from the most Easterly corner of said Subdivision, an iron pipe for
  corner in fence;
         Thence N. 76° 32 45" W. 1383.23 ft. along the South line of
  White Oak Manor Subdivision to an iron pipe for corner;
         Thence S. 13° 27' 15" W. 1094.77 ft. to an iron pipe for
  corner;
         Thence S. 76° 32' 45" E. 1601.26 ft. to an iron pipe for
  corner;
         Thence N. 61° 32" 50" E. 1371.02 ft to an iron pipe for corner
  in the West line of Longmire Road;
         Thence N. 27° 21 50" W. 339.35 ft. along the West line of
  Longmire Road to an iron pipe for corner;
         Thence S. 88° 52' 05" W. 600.17 ft. to an iron pipe for corner;
         Thence S. 21° 02 10" E. 126.31 ft. to an iron pipe for corner;
         Thence S. 72° 28' 26" W. 552.9 ft. to an iron pipe for corner;
         Thence N. 3° 00' 24" E. 662.55 ft. to the place of beginning.
         (b)  CONROE TRACT TWO:
         All that certain tract or parcel of land out of the Robert
  Marsh Survey A-355, and James Edwards Survey A-189, in Montgomery
  County, Texas being a portion of that certain tract of land conveyed
  to J. W. Spiller and wife by deed recorded in Volume 488, Page 309,
  of the deed records of Montgomery County, Texas, said tract of land
  being more particularly described by metes and bounds as follows:
         Beginning at a 3/4" iron pipe in the North line of the B. D.
  Griffin 424.53 acre tract and at the Southwest corner of that
  certain tract of land conveyed to W. S. Lampton Jr by deed recorded
  in Volume 665, Page 538, for the Southeast corner hereof, from which
  a 12" Elm marked X bears N 45° 00' W, 26.8 ft. and a 14" Ash marked X
  bears N 10° 30' E, 36.8 ft.;
         THENCE: Along the B. D. Griffin North line S 74° 49' 52" W, for
  a distance of 1624.6 ft. to a 1/2" iron rod for the Southeast corner
  of a 10.15 acre San Jacinto River Authority tract and the Southwest
  corner hereof;
         THENCE: Along the West line of the said San Jacinto River
  Authority tract N 25° 06' 20" W. for a distance of 1186.30 ft. to a
  yellow painted stake on the East bank of the San Jacinto River;
         THENCE: Along the East bank of the San Jacinto River the
  following courses:
         (1)  N 4° 07' E, 67.38 ft. to a yellow stake;
         (2)  N 25° 34' 17" E 59.58 ft. to a yellow stake;
         (3)  N 59° 49' 55" E, 117.87 ft. to a yellow stake;
         (4)  N 26° 41 17" E, 191.76 ft. to a yellow stake;
         (5)  N. 23° 46' 46" W, 50.44 ft. to a 1/2" iron stake in the
  North line hereof;
         THENCE: N 62° 01 12" E, along the North line hereof for a
  distance of 1573.79 ft. to a 3/4" iron pipe at the Northwest corner
  of the aforementioned W. S. Lampton tract and the Northeast corner
  hereof, from which a 14" Sweet Gum marked X bears S 66° 45" E, 197.5
  ft. and a 10" Red Oak marked X bears S 75° 30' E, 212.9 ft.;
         THENCE: Along the West line of the said Lampton tract S 15° 08' 
  51" E. for a distance of 1849.4 ft. to the place of beginning and
  containing 65.153 acres of land.
         (c)  CONROE TRACT THREE:
         Being 7.5 acres of land in the James Edwards Survey, Abstract
  No. 190 in Montgomery County, Texas, and being the North 1/2 of that
  certain 15 acre tract described in Volume 646, Page 52 of the Deed
  Records of Montgomery County, Texas, and being more particularly
  described by metes and bounds as follows, to-wit:
         BEGINNING at the northwest corner of the above mentioned 15
  acre tract a stake for corner in the center of a 60 foot roadway from
  which a 5/8" iron rod bears South 15° 09' East 30 feet;
         THENCE North 74° 56' East 705.6 feet along the center line of
  the above mentioned 60 foot roadway and the North line of said 15
  acre tract to the Northeast corner of said 15 acre tract being the
  northeast corner of the tract here described;
         THENCE South 27° 37' East 444.0 feet along the East line of
  said 15 acre tract and the West line of Longmire Road to the 5/8" 
  iron rod for the Southeast corner of the tract here described;
         THENCE South 74° 56' West 802.5 feet to a 5/8" iron rod for
  corner in the West line of said 15 acre tract for the Southwest
  corner of the tract here described;
         THENCE North 15° 04 West 433.4 feet along the West line of
  said 15 acre tract to the PLACE OF BEGINNING.
         (d)  CONROE TRACT FOUR:
         All that certain tract or parcel of land in the JAMES EDWARDS
  SURVEY, ABSTRACT 190, the JAMES EDWARDS SURVEY, ABSTRACT 189, and
  the ROBERT MARSH SURVEY, ABSTRACT 355, Montgomery County, Texas,
  and being the same premises conveyed by J. W. Spiller, et ux. to W.
  S. Lampton, Jr., Trustee, by Deed dated July 8, 1968, recorded in
  Volume 665, Page 538, Deed Records of Montgomery County, Texas, and
  being more particularly described by metes and bounds as follows,
  to-wit.
         BEGINNING at the most Northeasterly corner of a 625 acre
  tract of land conveyed by J. W. Spiller to John Ben Williamson, by
  Deed dated September 22, 1960, recorded in Volume 488, Page 313,
  Deed Records of Montgomery County, Texas, said corner being in the
  center of Longmire Road;
         THENCE South 74 degrees 54 minutes West 2378.8 feet along the
  North line of above mentioned 625 acre tract to the North Boundary
  Line of the Robert Marsh Survey, an iron pipe for corner from which
  a 12 inch Pine bears South 51 degrees 30 minutes West 8.4 feet, a 5
  inch Red Oak bears South 11 degrees 30 minutes East 3.0 Feet, and an
  11 inch Red Oak bears South 82 degrees 30 minutes East 19.0 feet;
         THENCE North 74 degrees 35 minutes 15 seconds West 2222.6
  feet along the North boundary of the Marsh and the South Line of the
  upper James Edwards Survey, to an iron pipe for corner from which a
  34 inch Pine bears South 37 degrees 30 minutes West 55 4 feet and a
  10 inch Pine bears North 37 degrees East 64.4 feet, this corner also
  being a corner of a 625 acre tract;
         THENCE South 75 degrees 00 minutes West 5363.8 feet along the
  North boundary of 625 acre tract to a 3/4 inch iron pipe for corner
  at a point North 75 degrees East 2090.98 feet from the Northwest
  corner of 625 acre tract, a 10 inch Elm bears North 47 degrees West
  26.0 feet and a 12 inch Ash bears North 10 degrees East 36.8 feet;
         THENCE North 15 degrees 02 minutes 30 seconds West 1849.6
  feet to a 3/4 inch iron pipe for corner from which a 40 inch Pin Oak
  bears South 44 degrees 37 minutes East 214.0 feet and a 14 inch
  Sweet Gum bears South 36 degrees 36 minutes East 197.7 feet, this
  corner being in the Southeast Line of the San Jacinto River
  Authority 87.22 acre tract;
         THENCE North 62 degrees 08 minutes 50 seconds East 1669.22
  feet along the South line of 87.22 acre tract to the East Corner of
  same, a 3/4 inch iron pipe for corner from which a 36 inch Pin Oak
  bears North 86 degrees West 19.5 feet;
         THENCE South 73 degrees 24 minutes 40 seconds East 1665.34
  feet along the South line of the M. E. Paddock 226 acres and the
  South line of the M. L. Duke 27 acres to an axle for the Southeast
  Corder of the Duke track;
         THENCE North 16 degrees 09 minutes East 2027.2 feet along
  Duke a East line to an axle for corner;
         THENCE North 82 degrees 23 minutes 15 seconds East 1716.09
  feet along the South line of the Calfee 22.8 acre tract to a stake
  for the Southeast Corner of same. an old axle bears South 82 degrees
  25 minutes West 1.5 feet;
         THENCE South 13 degrees 23 minutes West 778.43 feet along the
  West line of the Al Goode 88.356 acre tract to a 10 inch creosote
  post for the Southwest Corner of same. a 10 inch Hickory bears North
  05 degrees East 22.0 feet and a 6 inch Red Oak bears South 65 degrees
  West 14.0 feet.
         THENCE South 76 degrees 32 minutes 45 seconds East 2033.39
  feet along Goode's South Line to a 3/4 inch iron pipe for the
  Northwest Corner of the Spiller 59.195 acre tract.
         THENCE South 13 degrees 27 minutes 15 seconds West 1094.77
  feet to a 3/4 inch iron pipe for the Southwest Corder of the Spiller
  59 195 acre tract.
         THENCE South 76 degrees 32 minutes 45 seconds East 1601.26
  feet to a 3/4 inch iron pipe for the most Southerly corner of the
  Spiller 59.195 acre tract;
         THENCE North 61 degrees 32 minutes 50 seconds East at 1370.97
  feet pass a 2 inch iron pipe in the West side of a blacktop road and
  continue in all 1395.57 feet to a point in center of said blacktop
  road for the Southeast corner of Spiller 59.195 acre tract;
         THENCE South 27 degrees 21 minutes 50 seconds East 950.52
  feet along center of said blacktop road to the place of BEGINNING,
  and containing 410.539 acres of land.
  Less and Except
  Pine Valley Drive, a subdivision of 14.684 acres of land in the
  James Edwards Survey A-190, Montgomery County, Texas as per the
  dedication plat dated February 28, 2017, Document #2017016271,
  Cabinet 00Z, Sheet 4409.
  Less and Except
  20.000 ACRES
  871,200 SQUARE FEET
  JAMES EDWARDS SURVEY
  ABSTRACT NO. 190
  MONTGOMERY COUNTY, TEXAS
         FIELD NOTE DESCRIPTION of a 20.000 acre (871,200 square foot)
  tract of land located in the James Edwards Survey, Abstract Number
  190, Montgomery County, Texas and said 20.000 acre tract of land
  being out of and a part of the southerly remainder of Conroe Tract
  One, a called 47.932 acre tract and the remainder of Conroe Tract
  Four, a called 410.539 acre tract described in the deed to Conroe
  Venture, Ltd., recorded under Montgomery County Clerk's File Number
  (M.C.C.F. No.) 9149317, said 20.000 acre tract being more
  particularly described by metes and bounds as follows: (The
  bearings described herein are oriented to the Texas Coordinate
  System, South Central Zone, NAD 1983.)
         COMMENCING at the easterly end of a curved cut-back for the
  southwest corner of the intersection of the southwesterly
  Right-of-Way (R.O.W.) line of Longmire Road (based on a variable
  width) recorded under Volume (Vol.) 665, Page (Pg.) 538 of the
  Montgomery County Deed Records (M.C.D.R.), Cabinet "N", Sheet 65 of
  the Montgomery County Plat Records (M.C.P.R.) and M.C.C.F. Nos.
  2002-051191, 2009-013167, 2012-011629, 2012-0116630 and
  2012-011632 and the southerly R.O.W. line of Pine Valley Drive
  (based on a variable width) recorded under File No. 2017016271
  M.C.P.R., from which a 5/8-inch iron rod with cap stamped "Jeff Moon
  RPLS 4639" found bears, South 80 degrees 52 minutes West, 1.31 feet;
         THENCE, in a northwesterly direction, along a curve to the
  left, along said curved cut-back, having a radius of 25.00 feet, a
  central angle of 91 degrees 06 minutes 39 seconds (chord bears,
  North 75 degrees 11 minutes 42 seconds West, 35.70 feet) and an arc
  distance of 39.75 feet, to the westerly end of said curved cut-back;
         THENCE, South 59 degrees 14 minutes 58 seconds West,
  departing the southwesterly R.O.W. line of aforesaid Longmire Road
  and along the southerly R.O.W. line of aforesaid Pine Valley Drive,
  a distance of 289.13 feet, to the beginning of a tangent curve to
  the right in said southerly R.O.W. line of said Pine Valley Drive;
         THENCE, in a southwesterly direction, along a curve said the
  right, continuing along the southerly R.O.W. line of said Pine
  Valley Drive, having a radius of 1,254.00 feet, a central angle of
  10 degrees 02 minutes 54 seconds (chord bears, South 64 degrees 16
  minutes 25 seconds West, 219.64 feet) and an arc distance of 219.92
  feet, to a 5/8-inch iron rod with orange plastic cap stamped "West
  Belt Surveying Inc" set marking the POINT OF BEGINNING and the
  northeast corner of the herein described tract;
         THENCE, South 18 degrees 32 minutes 04 seconds East,
  departing the southerly R.O.W. line of said Pine Valley Drive and
  over and across aforesaid remainder of a called 410.539 acre tract,
  a distance of 620.93 feet, to a 1/2-inch iron rod found in the
  southerly line of said remainder of a called 410.539 acre tract and
  marking the northwest corner of Conroe Tract Three, a called 7.5
  acre tract described in the deed to Conroe Venture, Ltd., recorded
  under M.C.C.F. No. 9149317, and the northeast corner of the called
  3.979 acre tract described in the deed to Charles P. Peters, III and
  wife, Judith S. Peters, recorded under M.C.C.F. No. 9143598 and the
  southeast corner of the herein described tract;
         THENCE, South 71 degrees 30 minutes 55 seconds West, along
  the southerly line of said remainder of a called 410.539 acre tract,
  a distance of 1,225.27 feet, to a 5/8-inch iron rod with orange
  plastic cap stamped "West Belt Surveying Inc" set in the northerly
  line of the called 7.4806 acre tract described in the deed to
  William Lewis Pattillo, II1 and wife, Theresa Marcelle Pattillo
  recorded under M.C.C.F. No. 2005-137433 common with the northerly
  line of said remainder of a called 410.539 acre tract and marking
  the southwest corner of the herein described tract;
         THENCE, North 18 degrees 29 minutes 05 seconds West,
  departing said common line and over and across said remainder of a
  called 410.539 acre tract, a distance of 504.76 feet, to a 5/8-inch
  iron rod with orange plastic cap stamped "West Belt Surveying Inc"
  set marking an angle in the westerly line of the herein described
  tract;
         THENCE, North 22 degrees 10 minutes 43 seconds East,
  continuing over and across said remainder of a called 410.539 acre
  tract and over and across aforesaid southerly remainder of a called
  47.932 acre tract, a distance of 551.06 feet, to a 5/8-inch iron rod
  with orange plastic cap stamped "West Belt Surveying Inc" set in the
  southerly R.O.W. line of aforesaid Pine Valley Drive and marking an
  the beginning of a non-tangent curve to the left and the northwest
  corner of the herein described tract;
         THENCE, in an easterly direction, along said curve to the
  left, having a radius of 1,254.00 feet, a central angle of 42
  degrees 52 minutes 51 seconds (chord bears, South 89 degrees 15
  minutes 42 seconds East, 916.76 feet) and an arc distance of 938.51
  feet, to the POINT OF BEGINNING and containing a computed area of
  20.000 acres (871,200 square feet) of land as depicted on the Land
  Title Survey dated: August 2, 2019, prepared by West Belt
  Surveying, Inc., Project No. S945-0004A.
         SECTION 3.  (a) The legal notice of the intention to
  introduce this Act, setting forth the general substance of this
  Act, has been published as provided by law, and the notice and a
  copy of this Act have been furnished to all persons, agencies,
  officials, or entities to which they are required to be furnished
  under Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution, and Chapter 313,
  Government Code.
         (b)  The governor, one of the required recipients, has
  submitted the notice and Act to the Texas Commission on
  Environmental Quality.
         (c)  The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has filed
  its recommendations relating to this Act with the governor, the
  lieutenant governor, and the speaker of the house of
  representatives within the required time.
         (d)  All requirements of the constitution and laws of this
  state and the rules and procedures of the legislature with respect
  to the notice, introduction, and passage of this Act are fulfilled
  and accomplished.
         SECTION 4.  (a)  If this Act does not receive a two-thirds
  vote of all the members elected to each house, Subchapter C, Chapter
  7939A, Special District Local Laws Code, as added by Section 1 of
  this Act, is amended by adding Section 7939A.0307 to read as
  follows:
         Sec. 7939A.0307.  NO EMINENT DOMAIN POWER. The district may
  not exercise the power of eminent domain.
         (b)  This section is not intended to be an expression of a
  legislative interpretation of the requirements of Section 17(c),
  Article I, Texas Constitution.
         SECTION 5.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.
 
 
  ______________________________ ______________________________
     President of the Senate Speaker of the House     
 
 
         I certify that H.B. No. 4652 was passed by the House on May
  14, 2021, by the following vote:  Yeas 106, Nays 39, 2 present, not
  voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.
  No. 4652 on May 28, 2021, by the following vote:  Yeas 87, Nays 53,
  2 present, not voting.
 
  ______________________________
  Chief Clerk of the House   
 
         I certify that H.B. No. 4652 was passed by the Senate, with
  amendments, on May 27, 2021, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays
  1.
 
  ______________________________
  Secretary of the Senate   
  APPROVED: __________________
                  Date       
   
           __________________
                Governor