Bill Text: TX SB2175 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to special purpose territory of the Orange County Navigation and Port District of Orange County, Texas.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2021-05-24 - Effective immediately [SB2175 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB2175-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to special purpose territory of the Orange County Navigation and Port District of Orange County, Texas.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2021-05-24 - Effective immediately [SB2175 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB2175-Introduced.html
87R10778 SLB-F | ||
By: Creighton, Nichols | S.B. No. 2175 |
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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. |