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1	1	H.B. No. 5325
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4	4	AN ACT
5	5	relating to the boundaries of the Fort Bend County Municipal
6	6	Utility District No. 144.
7	7	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
8	8	SECTION 1. DEFINITION. In this Act, "district" means the
9	9	Fort Bend County Municipal Utility District No. 144.
10	10	SECTION 2. EXCLUSION OF TERRITORY. The boundaries of the
11	11	district are adjusted to exclude the following parcel of land:
12	12	35.460 acres of land situated in the Wm. Lusk Survey,
13	13	Abstract 276, Fort Bend County, Texas, being that certain called
14	14	35.46-acre tract of land as described in deed and recorded in the
15	15	Official Public Records of Real Property of Fort Bend County, Texas
16	16	under County Clerk's File Number 2003148301, said 35.460 acres of
17	17	land being more particularly described by metes and bounds as
18	18	follows, bearing orientation is based on the Texas Coordinate
19	19	System of 1983, South Central Zone:
20	20	COMMENCING at a P.K. nail found at the northeasterly corner
21	21	of the Wm. Lusk Survey, Abstract 276, being the southeasterly
22	22	corner of the Jane H. Long Survey, Abstract 55 and being in the
23	23	northwesterly line of the Wiley Martin Survey, Abstract 56;
24	24	Thence, N 67'42'50" W, with the common line of the Wm. Lusk
25	25	and Jane H. Long Surveys, a distance of 2765.00 feet to a 5/8-inch
26	26	iron rod with cap set for the POINT OF BEGINNING of the herein
27	27	described tract;
28	28	Thence, S 22'17'36" W, with the northwesterly line of that
29	29	certain called 3.42-acre tract of land as described in deed and
30	30	recorded In the Official Public Records of Real Property of Fort
31	31	Bend County, Texas under County Clerk's File Number 9722217, a
32	32	distance of 261.42 feet to a point in the northerly right-of-way
33	33	line of F.M. 762 (based on a width of 100.00 feet), from which a
34	34	found 3/4 inch iron pipe bears N 29°32' E, a distance of 0.4 feet;
35	35	Thence, N 83'10'49" W, with the northerly right-of-way line
36	36	of F.M. 762, a distance of 858.67 feet to a 3/4-inch iron pipe found
37	37	for a point of curvature to the right;
38	38	Thence in a northwesterly direction along the northeasterly
39	39	right-of-way line of F.M. 762 with said curve to the right, having a
40	40	central angle of 19'38'05', a radius of 5670.00 feet, an arc length
41	41	of 1943.07 feet and having a chord bearing of N 73°21'47' W, a
42	42	distance of 1933.57 feet to a 3/4 inch iron pipe found In the
43	43	southeasterly line of the Robert E. Hardy Survey, Abstract 187;
44	44	Thence, N 22°22'55" E, with the southeasterly line of the
45	45	Robert E. Hardy Survey, a distance of 680.74 feet to a 3/4 Inch iron
46	46	pipe found in the southwesterly line of the Jane H. Long Survey;
47	47	Thence, S 67°42'50" E, with the southwesterly line of the Jane
48	48	H. Long Survey, a distance of 2750.66 feet to the POINT OF BEGINNING
49	49	and containing 35.460 acres of land.
50	50	SECTION 3. RIGHTS OF BONDHOLDERS. The exclusion of
51	51	property under this Act does not diminish or impair the rights of
52	52	the holders of any outstanding and unpaid bonds, warrants, or other
53	53	certificates of indebtedness of the district.
54	54	SECTION 4. APPORTIONMENT OF DISTRICT INDEBTEDNESS. (a)
55	55	The excluded property is not released from the payment of its pro
56	56	rata share of the district's indebtedness.
57	57	(b) The district shall continue to levy taxes each year on
58	58	the property excluded from the district at the same rate levied on
59	59	other property of the district until the taxes collected from the
60	60	excluded property equal the property's pro rata share of the
61	61	indebtedness of the district on the effective date of this Act. The
62	62	taxes collected shall be applied exclusively to the payment of the
63	63	excluded property's pro rata share of the indebtedness.
64	64	(c) The owner of any part of the excluded property at any
65	65	time may pay in full the owner's share of the pro rata share of the
66	66	indebtedness of the district. The district may apply all or a
67	67	portion of funds previously paid or advanced to the district by an
68	68	owner of any part of the excluded property toward the payment of the
69	69	owner's pro rata share of the indebtedness of the district.
70	70	SECTION 5. NOTICE. (a) The legal notice of the intention
71	71	to introduce this Act, setting forth the general substance of this
72	72	Act, has been published as provided by law, and the notice and a
73	73	copy of this Act have been furnished to all persons, agencies,
74	74	officials, or entities to which they are required to be furnished
75	75	under Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution, and Chapter 313,
76	76	Government Code.
77	77	(b) The governor, one of the required recipients, has
78	78	submitted the notice and Act to the Texas Commission on
79	79	Environmental Quality.
80	80	(c) The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has filed
81	81	its recommendations relating to this Act with the governor, the
82	82	lieutenant governor, and the speaker of the house of
83	83	representatives within the required time.
84	84	(d) All requirements of the constitution and laws of this
85	85	state and the rules and procedures of the legislature with respect
86	86	to the notice, introduction, and passage of this Act are fulfilled
87	87	and accomplished.
88	88	SECTION 6. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Act takes effect
89	89	immediately if it receives a vote of two-thirds of all the members
90	90	elected to each house, as provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas
91	91	Constitution. If this Act does not receive the vote necessary for
92	92	immediate effect, this Act takes effect September 1, 2023.
93	93	______________________________ ______________________________
94	94	President of the Senate Speaker of the House
95	95	I certify that H.B. No. 5325 was passed by the House on May 2,
96	96	2023, by the following vote: Yeas 116, Nays 28, 3 present, not
97	97	voting.
98	98	______________________________
99	99	Chief Clerk of the House
100	100	I certify that H.B. No. 5325 was passed by the Senate on May
101	101	17, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 29, Nays 2.
102	102	______________________________
103	103	Secretary of the Senate
104	104	APPROVED: _____________________
105	105	Date
106	106	_____________________
107	107	Governor