By: Creighton, Nichols S.B. No. 1986
(In the Senate - Filed March 16, 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 adding a special purpose territory to the Port of Port
Arthur Navigation District of Jefferson County, Texas.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Chapter 197, Acts of the 58th Legislature,
Regular Session, 1963, is amended by adding Section 1A to read as
follows:
Sec. 1A. (a) In this section, "special purpose area" means
the territory described by Subsection (e) of this section.
(b) 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 district for the purpose of
reporting to the United States Army Corps of Engineers under
applicable federal law.
(c) The inclusion in the district of the special purpose
area does not affect any powers or duties exercised in the special
purpose area by the Sabine-Neches Navigation District or the Port
of Beaumont Navigation District of Jefferson County, Texas.
(d) The district may not impose a tax in the special purpose
area.
(e) In addition to the territory described by Section 1 of
this Act, the Port of Port Arthur Navigation District of Jefferson
County, Texas, includes the following tract as a special purpose
area:
BEING 133.8 ± acres of land and water, part of the Neches
River in the City of Port Arthur, Jefferson County, Texas; said
133.8 ± acre tract being more fully described by metes and bounds as
follows, to wit:
BEGINNING at a point on the intersection of the thread of the
Neches River with the current city limits of the City of Port
Arthur, as described in Annexation Ordinance No. 2540, for the most
northerly comer of the herein described tract;
THENCE, in a southeasterly direction, with the thread of the
Neches River, a distance of 7885'± to its intersection with the
current boundary of the Port of Port Arthur Navigation District on
the centerline of State Highway 87, for the most easterly comer of
the herein described tract;
THENCE, in a southwesterly direction, on the centerline of
State Highway 87, being the current boundary of the Port of Port
Arthur Navigation District, a distance of 690'± to a point on the
projected southwesterly bank of the Neches River, for the most
southerly comer of the herein described tract;
THENCE, in a northwesterly direction, on the Southwest bank
of the Neches River, a distance of 9000'± to its intersection with
the Northwest line of City of Port Arthur Annexation Ordinance
No. 2540, same being the southeasterly line of a (Called 16.130)
acre tract of land, known as Tract Five, Parcel SE, recorded in File
No. 2020000404, Official Public Records, Jefferson County, Texas,
for the most westerly comer of the herein described tract;
THENCE, in a northeasterly direction, on the Northwest line
of City of Port Arthur Annexation Ordinance No. 2540, a distance of
1045'± to the POINT OF BEGINNING, and containing 133.8 ± acres of
land, more or less.
SECTION 2. (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 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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