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• • <br />the ordinance ti~ri11 be finally passed, and the life provisions <br />of the subject ordinance, are unfair and do not accord tr_ith <br />due process of law in tizat the charter and tr~is ordinance <br />provide that the annexati on .~ri 11 be effective des1~ite the <br />matters brou~nt forth. on such hearin;; i~rhe.reas, where a <br />hearing is to be provided, the matters brought forth there <br />should properly be considered before the City Commission is <br />cornrnitted to an ordinance of annexation. <br />xII. <br />?3ecause of the lac. of any reasonable relationship <br />between the proposed act of annexation and the municipal need <br />and purpose of the City of La Forte, the said Ordinance i1o. <br />515 is void as to ?,;ational Petro-Chemicals Corporation since <br />it contravenes the due process and equal protection clauses <br />of Sections 17 and l,? o.f the Constitution of Texas, the <br />I+ourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, <br />and in violation of Section 5, Article 1.I of the Constitution <br />prohibiting a Home 3ule Cit~T from adopting a charter provisi on <br />or ordinance inconsistent :,rich the constitution and general <br />lac°rs of the State. <br />xlxz. <br />Under tn.e charter of the City of La Porte, as a <br />matter of law, the City Commission is without authority to <br />extend the city boundaries as is proposed to be done in said <br />Ordinance ido. 5LI-5. <br />-5- <br />