By: Creighton S.B. No. 2574
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the creation of the Montgomery County Municipal Utility
District No. 228; 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 7969A to read as follows:
CHAPTER 7969A. MONTGOMERY COUNTY MUNICIPAL UTILITY DISTRICT
NO. 228
SUBCHAPTER A. GENERAL PROVISIONS
Sec. 7969A.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. 228.
Sec. 7969A.0102. NATURE OF DISTRICT. The district is a
municipal utility district created under Section 59, Article XVI,
Texas Constitution.
Sec. 7969A.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. 7969A.0104. CONSENT OF MUNICIPALITY REQUIRED. The
temporary directors may not hold an election under Section
7969A.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. 7969A.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. 7969A.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. 7969A.0201. GOVERNING BODY; TERMS. (a) The district
is governed by a board of five elected directors.
(b) Except as provided by Section 7969A.0202, directors
serve staggered four-year terms.
Sec. 7969A.0202. TEMPORARY DIRECTORS. (a) On or after
September 1, 2023, 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 7969A.0103; or
(2) September 1, 2027.
(c) If permanent directors have not been elected under
Section 7969A.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 7969A.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. 7969A.0301. GENERAL POWERS AND DUTIES. The district
has the powers and duties necessary to accomplish the purposes for
which the district is created.
Sec. 7969A.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. 7969A.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. 7969A.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. 7969A.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. 7969A.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
7969A.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 7969A.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) If the creation of the new district is confirmed, the
new district shall provide the election date and results to the
commission.
(j) Municipal consent to the creation of the district and to
the inclusion of land in the district granted under Section
7969A.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.
(k) 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.
(l) 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.
SUBCHAPTER D. GENERAL FINANCIAL PROVISIONS
Sec. 7969A.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
7969A.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. 7969A.0402. OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE TAX. (a) If
authorized at an election held under Section 7969A.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. 7969A.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. 7969A.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. 7969A.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. 7969A.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. 228 initially includes all the territory contained in the
following area:
BEING a 319.424 acre tract of land situated in the Clark Beach
Survey, Abstract Number 79, Montgomery County, Texas, being a
portion of that certain called 1,278.671 acre tract described as
"Parcel 2, Tract 1" in instrument to Atakapa, LLC., recorded under
Clerk's File Number 2013016070 of the Official Public Records of
Montgomery County, Texas (O.P.R.M.C.T.), and all of that certain
tract described as "Tract 68, of Security Subdivision, described in
instrument to Lone Star Timber II, LP, recorded under Clerk's File
Number 200 I 106195, O.P.R.M.C.T., said 319.424 acre tract being
more particularly described by metes and bounds as follows:
BEGINNING at 5/8 inch iron rod found in the northeasterly margin of
Crockett Martin Road for the common westerly comer of said Parcel 2,
Tract 1 and that certain called 13.98 acre tract described in
instrument to Tee Total Engineering Expectations, LLC., recorded
under Clerk's File Number 2016093633, O.P.R.M.C.T., being a
southwesterly corner of the herein described 319.424 acre tract;
THENCE North 22°38'32" West, 4 I 8.13 feet, with the northeasterly
margin of said Crockett Martin Road, a southwesterly I ine of said
Parcel 2, Tract I, to a 1/2 inch iron rod with cap stamped "TPS I
00834-00" set for an angle point in the northeasterly margin of said
Crockett Martin Road, being an angle point in a southwesterly line
of the herein described 31 9.424 acre tract;
THENCE North 24°02'13" West, 163.31 feet, continuing with the
northeasterly margin of said Crockett Martin Road, a southwesterly
line of said Parcel 2, Tract I, to a 5/8 inch iron rod found for an
angle point in the northeasterly margin of said Crockett Martin
Road, being an angle point in a southwesterly line of the herein
described 319.424 acre tract;
THENCE North 24°51'II" West, 464.87 feet, continuing with the
northeasterly margin of said Crockett Martin Road, a southwesterly
line of said Parcel 2, Tract I, to a 5/8 inch iron rod with aluminum
cap found at a 1 1/2 inch iron pipe for the common westerly comer of
said Parcel 2, Tract I and that certain called 2.61 acre tract
described in instrument to Anja C. Joyce and Kenton Joyce, recorded
under Clerk's File Number 9813446 of the Real Property Records of
Montgomery County, Texas (R.P.R.M.C.T.), being the westerly
northwest comer of the herein described 319.424 acre tract;
THENCE North 82°55'00" East, 281.41 feet, with the common line
between said Parcel 2, Tract I and said 2.61 acre tract, to a 5/8
inch iron rod with aluminum cap found at a I 1/2 inch iron pipe for
the common easterly comer of said Parcel 2, Tract I and said 2.61
acre tract, being an interior comer of the herein described 319.424
acre tract;
THENCE North 02°23'26" West, 319.49 feet, with the easterly line of
said 2.61 acre tract and that certain called
4.00 acre tract described in instrument to Anja C. Joyce and Kenton
Joyce, recorded under Clerk's File Number 9802056, R.P.R.M.C.T.,
common to a westerly line of said Parcel 2, Tract l, to a 1 1/2 inch
iron pipe found for the common westerly corner of said Parcel 2,
Tract I and the remainder of that certain called 1.56 acre tract
described as "Tract One" in instrument to Enderli Family Living
Trust, recorded under Clerk's File Number 2002026404,
O.P.R.M.C.T., being a northwesterly corner of the herein described
319.424 acre tract;
THENCE North 87°30'12" East, 658.45 feet, with the southerly line of
said remainder of 1.56 acre tract, and that certain called 2.46 acre
tract described in instrument to Richard Ebert, recorded under
Clerk's File Number 2006034086, O.P.R.M.C.T., common to a northerly
line of said Parcel 2, Tract I, to a 1 inch iron pipe found for the
common corner of said Parcel 2, Tract 1, said 2.46 acre tract, and
that certain called 19 acre tract described in instrument to John
Ganze, recorded under Clerk's File Number 20 I 5084061,
O.P.R.M.C.T., being an angle point in a northerly line of the herein
described 319.424 acre tract;
THENCE North 85°37'24" East, 1,329.41 feet, with the common line
between said Parcel 2, Tract 1 and said 19 acre tract, to a 1 inch
pinched top iron pipe at a 1/2 inch iron rod found for a common
corner of the same, being an interior corner of the herein described
319.424 acre tract, from which a 1-1/2 inch iron pipe found for
reference bears North 60°14' 16" East, 0.83 feet;
THENCE North 03°09'58" West, 661.01 feet, continuing with said
common line, to a l 1/2 inch iron pipe found for a common corner of
the same, being an interior corner of the herein described 319.424
acre tract;
THENCE South 86°27'29" West, 1,321.54 feet, continuing with said
common line, to a I inch iron pipe found in an easterly line of that
certain called 3.12 acre tract described in instrument to Kelly
Kenney, recorded under Clerk's File Number 2018073035,
O.P.R.M.C.T., for the common westerly corner of said Parcel 2,
Tract 1 and said 19 acre tract, being a southwesterly comer of the
herein described 319.424 acre tract, from which a 2 inch iron pipe
found for reference bears South 02°56'06" East, 38.45 feet;
THENCE North 03°22'48" West, with the easterly line of said 3.12
acre tract, that certain called 4.08 acre tract described in
instrument to Sherry Navarro, recorded under Clerk's File Number
2021025975, O.P.R.M.C.T., and that certain called 5.47 acre tract
described in instrument to Sherry Brewer, recorded under Clerk's
File Number 2021025976, O.P.R.M.C.T., common to a westerly line of
said Parcel 2, Tract I, at a distance of 58.22 feet, pass a 11/2 inch
iron pipe found for reference, at a distance of 58.82 feet, pass a
3/8 inch iron rod found for the common easterly corner of said 3. 12
acre tract and said 4.08 acre tract, at a distance of 278.14 feet,
pass a 5/8 inch iron rod found for reference, at a distance of
654.62 feet, pass a 2 inch iron pipe found for reference, in all, a
total distance of
660.48 feet, to a 5/8 inch iron rod with aluminum cap found at a l
1/2 inch iron pipe in the southerly line of that certain called 5.05
acre tract described as "Tract 2" in instrument to Douglas Edward
Young, recorded under Clerk's File Number 99097271, R.P.R.M.C.T.,
for the common northerly corner of said Parcel 2, Tract 1 and said
5.47 acre tract, being a northwesterly corner of the herein
described 319.424 acre tract;
THENCE North 86°36'04" East, 660.46 feet, with the common line
between said Parcel 2, Tract 1 and said 5.05 acre tract, to a 5/8
inch iron rod with aluminum cap found at a I 1/2 inch iron pipe found
for a common comer of the same, being an interior comer of the
herein described 319.424 acre tract;
THENCE North 03°15'45" West, 660.05 feet, with the easterly line of
said 5.05 acre tract and that certain called
11.64 acre tract described in instrument to Douglas Young, recorded
under Clerk's File Number 2011098942, O.P.R.M.C.T., common to a
westerly line of said Parcel 2, Tract 1, to a 1 1/2 inch iron pipe
found for the common northerly comer of said Parcel 2, Tract 1 and
said 11.64 acre tract, being a northwesterly comer of the herein
described 319.424 acre tract, from which a 3/8 inch iron rod found
for reference bears South 86°35'15" West, 1,087.27 feet;
THENCE North 86°23'02" East, 1,975.99 feet, severing, over and
across said Parcel 2, Tract 1, to a I 1/2 inch iron pipe found at a
5/8 inch iron rod for the northwesterly corner of that certain tract
described as "Tracts 55 and 58" of Security Subdivision, Section
One, in instrument to Gary Mitchel Lippert, recorded under Clerk's
File Number 2015112584, O.P.R.M.C.T., being a northeasterly corner
of the herein described 3 I 9.424 acre tract;
THENCE with the common line between said Parcel 2, Tract I and said
Tracts 55 and 58, the following three (3) courses and distances:
South 03°11'45" East, 656.19 feet, to a1/2 inch iron rod with cap
stamped "TPS 100834-00" set for comer;
North 87°11'48" East, 661.77 feet, to a1/2 inch iron rod with cap
stamped "TPS 100834-00" set for comer;
North 03°25'52" West, 662.49 feet, to a 1 inch iron pipe found for
the northeasterly comer of said Tracts 55 and 58, being a
northwesterly comer of the herein described 319.424 acre tract;
THENCE North 86°39'04" East, 652.56 feet, severing, over and across
said Parcel 2, Tract 1, to a1/2 inch iron rod with cap stamped "TPS
100834-00" set for a northeasterly comer of the herein described
319.424 acre tract;
THENCE South 03°37'03" East, 2,642.97 feet, continuing, over and
across said Parcel 2, Tract 1, to a 1 inch iron pipe found, bent, for
the easterly common north comer of said Parcel 2, Tract 1, and that
certain tract described as being Tract 120 of said Section 1, in
instrument to Felix Canseco, recorded under Clerk's File Number
8742170, R.P.R.M.C.T., being a southeasterly corner of the herein
described 319.424 acre tract;
THENCE with the common line between said Parcel 2, Tract I and said
Canseco tract, the following three (3) courses and distances:
South 86°27'22" West, 660.84 feet, to a 5/8 inch iron rod with cap
found for comer;
South 03°37'00" East, 329.72 feet, to a1/2 inch iron rod with cap
stamped "TPS I 00834-00" set for comer;
North 86°27'48" East, at a distance of 659.12 feet, pass a 1 inch
iron pipe found, bent, for reference, in all, a total distance of
660.85 feet, to a 1/2 inch iron rod with cap stamped "TPS 100834-00"
set for the common southerly corner of said Parcel 2, Tract 1 and
said Canseco tract, being the northeasterly corner of the herein
described 319.424 acre tract;
THENCE South 03°37'03" East, 1,034.68 feet, continuing across said
Parcel 2, Tract I, to a1/2 inch iron rod with cap stamped "TPS
100834-00" set in the northerly line of that certain called 4.00
acre tract described in instrument to Joshua Kevin Perry, recorded
under Clerk's File Number 2005129306, O.P.R.M.C.T., being a
southeasterly corner of the herein described 319.424 acre tract,
from which a 5/8 inch iron rod found for reference bears North
86°39'34" East, 1, l 02.43 feet;
THENCE South 86°39'34" West, 217.01 feet, with the common line
between said Parcel 2, Tract 1 and said 4.00 acre tract, to a 1 1/2
inch iron pipe found for a common comer of the same, being an
interior corner of the herein described 319.424 acre tract;
THENCE South 03°14'53" East, 681.43 feet, continuing with said
common line, to a 5/8 inch iron rod found in the northerly margin of
Farm to Market Road 2090 (F.M. 2090), for the common southerly comer
of said Parcel 2, Tract I and said 4.00 acre tract, being the
southerly southeast comer of the herein described 319.424 acre
tract;
THENCE North 77°10'20" West, 559.86 feet, with the northerly
right-of-way of said F.M. 2090, a southerly line of said Parcel 2,
Tract 1, to a 1/2 inch iron rod with cap stamped "TPS l 00834-00" set
for the beginning of a curve to the left;
THENCE Northwesterly, 809.97 feet, continuing with the northerly
right-of-way of said F.M. 2090, a southerly line of said Parcel 2,
Tract l, along the arc of said curve to the left, having a radius of
5,779.81 feet, a central angle of 08°01'46", a chord that bears
North 81°09'00" West, 809.31 feet, to a1/2 inch iron rod with cap
stamped "TPS 100834-00" set for the common southerly comer of said
Parcel 2, Tract I and that certain called 1.74 acre tract described
in instrument to Innerfaith Disciple House, recorded under Clerk's
File Number 20 I 8099589, O.P.R.M.C.T., being the most southerly
southwest comer of the herein described 319.424 acre tract;
THENCE North 03°37'57" West, 1,007.31 feet, with the easterly line
of said I .74 acre tract and the remainder of that certain tract
described as being Lots I 33 and 134 of said Section I, in
instrument to Robert L. Bartlett, recorded under Clerk's File
Number 2019030913, O.P.R.M.C.T., common to a westerly line of said
Parcel 2, Tract I, to a 5/8 inch iron rod with aluminum cap found at
a 1 1/2 inch iron pipe for the common northerly comer of said Parcel
2, Tract I and said Bartlett tract, being an interior comer of the
herein described 319.424 acre tract;
THENCE South 86°53'08" West, 659.72 feet, with the northerly line of
said Bartlett tract and that certain called 5.10 acre tract
described as "Tract I" in instrument to John D. Mitchell, recorded
under Clerk's File Number
20 I 7066131, O.P.R.M.C.T., common to a southerly line of said
Parcel 2, Tract 1, to a 5/8 inch iron rod with aluminum cap found at
a l 1/2 inch iron pipe found for the common comer of said Parcel 2,
Tract I, said 5.IO acre tract, and that certain called 28.112 acre
tract described in instrument to Bobby Giles and Renata Giles,
recorded under Clerk's File Number 2016011300, O.P.R.M.C.T., being
an angle point in a southerly line of the herein described 319.424
acre tract;
THENCE South 87°19'09" West, 1,319.93 feet, with the common line
between said Parcel 2, Tract 1 and said 28.112 acre tract, to a I
inch pinched top iron pipe found at a 1 inch iron pipe found for the
common comer of said Parcel 2, Tract I, said 28.112 acre tract, and
said 13.98 acre tract, being an angle point in a southerly line of
the herein described 3 I 9.424 acre tract;
THENCE South 87°38'49" West, 1,024.19 feet, with the common line
between said Parcel 2, Tract 1 and said 13.98 acre tract, to the
POINT OF BEGINNING.
CONTAINING a computed area of 319.424 acres of land within this
Field Note Description Save and Except the following described
5.090 acre tract:
FIELD NOTE DESCRIPTION 5.090ACRES
IN THE CLARK BEACH SURVEY, ABSTRACT NUMBER 79 MONTGOMERY COUNTY,
TEXAS
BEING a 5.090 acre tract of land situated in the Clark Beach Survey,
Abstract Number 79, Montgomery County, Texas, being all of that
same tract described as "Parcel I", being Farm Tract 75, of said
Section 1, described in instrument to JBMG, LTD., recorded under
Clerk's File Number 9569681, R.P.R.M.C.T., said 5.090 acre tract
being more particularly described by metes and bounds as follows:
BEGINNING at a 5/8 inch iron rod with aluminum cap found at a I inch
pinched top iron pipe for the southerly common east corner of said
Parcel 2, Tract I and said JBMG tract, being the southeasterly
corner of the herein described 5.090 acre tract, from which a 1 inch
iron pipe found, for the easterly common north comer of said Parcel
2, Tract 1 and said Canseco tract bears South 48°23' 51" East,
1,866.30 feet;
THENCE with the common line between said Parcel 2, Tract 1 and said
JBMG tract, the following four (4) courses and distances:
South 86°34' 17" West, 657. IO feet, to a 1 inch pinched top iron
pipe found, disturbed for comer, from which a I inch iron pipe found
at a 1/2 inch iron rod found for the southerly common east corner of
said Parcel 2, Tract I and said 19 acre tract bears South 41°635'3 I"
West, 938.44 feet;
North 04°19'03" West, 336.19 feet, to a 5/8 inch iron rod with cap
found at a 1 inch iron pipe for comer;
North 86°25' 10" East, 658.66 feet, to a 5/8 inch iron rod found at a
1 inch iron pipe for comer;
South 04°02'56" East, 337.92 feet, to the POINT OF BEGINNING.
CONTAINING a computed area of 5.090 acres ofland within this Field
Note Description Save and Except the following described 4.999 acre
tract
FIELD NOTE DESCRIPTION 4.999ACRES
IN THE CLARK BEACH SURVEY, ABSTRACT NUMBER 79 MONTGOMERY COUNTY,
TEXAS
BEING a 4.999 acre tract of land situated in the Clark Beach Survey,
Abstract Number 79, Montgomery County, Texas, being al I of that
same tract described as being Farm Tract 108 of said Section I,
described in instrument to Adeline A. Barnes, et al, recorded under
Clerk's File Number 7506958, R.P.R.M.C.T., said 4.999 acre tract
being more particularly described by metes and bounds as follows:
BEGINNING at a 5/8 inch iron rod with aluminum cap at a I 1/2 inch
iron pipe found for the easterly common south comer of said Parcel
2, Tract I and said Barnes tract, being the southeasterly comer of
the herein described 4.999 acre tract, from which a1/2 inch iron rod
with cap stamped "TPS 100834-00" set for the westerly common south
comer of said Parcel 2, Tract I and said Canseco tract bears South
66°46'02" East, 739.05 feet;
THENCE with the common line between said Parcel 2, Tract I and said
Barnes tract, the following four (4) courses and distances:
I) South 86°39'47" West, 660.00 feet, to a 5/8 inch iron rod found
at a I 1/2 inch iron pipe for comer, from which a 5/8 inch iron rod
found in the northeasterly margin of said Crockett Martin Road for
the common westerly comer of said Parcel 2, Tract 1 and said 13.98
acre tract bears South 71°56'17" West, 2655.96 feet;
North 03°24'08" West, 330.04 feet. to a 5/8 inch iron rod found at a
I 1/2 inch iron pipe for comer;
North 86°40'24" East, 659.95 feet, to a 5/8 inch iron rod with
aluminum cap found at a I 1/2 inch iron pipe for comer;
South 03°24'41" East, 329.92 feet, to the POINT OF BEGINNING.
CONTAINING a computed area of 4.999 acres of land within this Field
Note Description
LEAVING a computed NET area of309.335 acres of land within this
Field Note Description.
This Field Note Description was prepared from a survey performed on
the ground on April 1, 2021 by Texas Professional Surveying, LLC.,
Registered Professional Land Surveyors and is referenced to Survey
Drawing Project Number S458-103-SW S HALF.
Bearings recited hereon are based on GPS observations and are
referenced to the North American Datum (NAO) 1983, Texas State
Plane Coordinate System, Central Zone (4203).
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
7969A, Special District Local Laws Code, as added by Section 1 of
this Act, is amended by adding Section 7969A.0307 to read as
follows:
Sec. 7969A.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, 2023.