Bill Text: TX SB1986 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to adding a special purpose territory to the Port of Port Arthur Navigation District of Jefferson County, Texas.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2021-05-24 - Effective immediately [SB1986 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB1986-Enrolled.html
S.B. No. 1986 |
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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. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1986 passed the Senate on | ||
April 19, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Secretary of the Senate | ||
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1986 passed the House on | ||
May 8, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 115, Nays 24, two | ||
present not voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
Approved: | ||
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Date | ||
______________________________ | ||
Governor |