By: Creighton, Nichols  S.B. No. 2175
         (In the Senate - Filed March 31, 2021; April 1, 2021, read
  first time and referred to Select Committee on Ports;
  April 13, 2021, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 7,
  Nays 0; April 13, 2021, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to special purpose territory of the Orange County
  Navigation and Port District of Orange County, Texas.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Chapter 5018, Special District Local Laws Code,
  as effective April 1, 2021, is amended by adding Subchapter F to
  read as follows:
  SUBCHAPTER F. SPECIAL PURPOSE AREA
         Sec. 5018.0301.  DEFINITION. In this subchapter, "special
  purpose area" means the territory described by Section 2 of the Act
  enacting this subchapter.
         Sec. 5018.0302.  REPORTING OF CARGO AND VESSEL MOVEMENTS.
  (a) Waterborne commercial cargo and vessel movements originating
  in or departing from the special purpose area may be attributed as
  waterborne commercial cargo or vessel movements originating in or
  departing from the Port of Beaumont Navigation District of
  Jefferson County, Texas, for the purpose of reporting to the United
  States Army Corps of Engineers under applicable federal law.
         (b)  Waterborne commercial cargo and vessel movements
  originating in or departing from the territory of the district not
  including the special purpose area may be attributed as waterborne
  commercial cargo or vessel movements originating in or departing
  from the district for the purpose of reporting to the United States
  Army Corps of Engineers under applicable federal law.
         SECTION 2.  The following tract is designated as a special
  purpose area for the purposes of Subchapter F, Chapter 5018,
  Special District Local Laws Code, as added by this Act:
         BEING 265.4 ± acres of land, part of the Neches River, the
  William Stephenson Survey, Abstract No. 23, and the Gilbert
  Stevenson Survey, Abstract No. 167, Orange County, Texas; being all
  of a (Called 250) acre tract of land, known as Tract 12, described
  in a deed to Port of Beaumont Navigation District, recorded in
  Volume 123, Page 376, Deed Records, Orange County, Texas, and all of
  a (Called 108.9935) acre tract, described in a Quitclaim Deed to the
  Port of Beaumont Navigation District, recorded in Volume 955, Page
  34, Official Public Records, Orange County, Texas; said 265.4 ±
  acre tract being more fully described by metes and follows as
  follows, to wit:
         BEGINNING at a half-inch steel rod, capped and marked
  "SOUTEX", found on the southeasterly line of a 225' wide Kansas City
  Southern Railway Company right of way, formerly Texarkana & Fort
  Smith Railway Company, and the West line of a (Called 496.00) acre
  tract of land, known as Parcel 1, described in a deed to Optimus
  Steel, LLC, recorded in File No. 458665, Official Public Records,
  Orange County, Texas, for the most northerly corner of the herein
  described tract; said capped rod having coordinates of N:
  10052007.85, E: 4274200.44;
         THENCE, South 05 deg., 58 min., 02 sec., East, on the West
  line of the (Called 496.00) acre tract, a distance of 1894.32' to a
  3" steel pipe found for corner on the common line of the Gilbert
  Stevenson Survey, Abstract No. 167 and the William Stephenson
  Survey, Abstract No. 23; said steel pipe having coordinates of N:
  10050123.79, E: 4274397.37;
         THENCE, South 06 deg., 06 min., 36 sec., East, continuing on
  the West line of the (Called 496.00) acre tract, and an extension
  thereof, at 2271.95' passing a 1" steel pipe found for reference,
  and continuing a total distance of 2729.68'± to a point on the
  thread of the Neches River, for the Southeast corner of the herein
  described tract; said point for corner being on the current
  boundary of the Port of Beaumont Navigation District;
         THENCE, in a northwesterly direction, on the thread of the
  Neches River and the current limits of the Port of Beaumont
  Navigation District, a distance of 5143'± to a point on the
  southeasterly line of the 225' wide Kansas City Southern Railway
  Company right of way, for the Southwest corner of the herein
  described tract;
         THENCE, North 45 deg. 36 min. 40 sec East, on the
  southeasterly line of said Kansas City Southern Railway Company
  right of way, a distance of 386.45'± to a point for corner;
         THENCE, continuing on the southeasterly line of said Kansas
  City Southern Railway Company right of way, on the arc of a curve to
  the right, having a radius of 2785.00', an arc length of 477.92', a
  chord bearing of North 50 deg., 07 min., 07 sec., East, a chord
  distance of 477.33' to a point for corner;
         THENCE, North 55 deg., 02 min., 05 sec., East, continuing on
  the southeasterly line of said Kansas City Southern Railway right
  of way, a distance of 4430.21' to the POINT OF BEGINNING and
  containing 265.4 ± acres of land and water, more or less.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
  a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
  provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
  Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
  Act takes effect September 1, 2021.
 
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