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~. '-. ORDINANCE NO. 1609 AN ORDINANCE DECLARING THE INTENTION OF THE CITY OF LA PORTE TO INSTITUTE PROCEEDINGS TO ANNEX CERTAIN TERRITORY, CALLING TWO (2) PUBLIC HEARINGS AT WHICH ALL INTERESTED PARTIES SHALL HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO BE HEARD: PROVIDING FOR THE PUBLICATION OF NOTICE OF SUCH HEARINGS BY THE PUBLICATION OF THIS ORDINANCE, FINDING COMPLIANCE WITH THE OPEN MEETINGS LAW, AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE HEREOF. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LA PORTE: Section l. The City Council of the City of La Porte hereby declares its intention to institute annexation proceedings, to annex the following described territory to the City of La Porte by the passage of an ordinance of annexation extending the general corporate limits of the City of La Porte for all purposes to include within such territory all of the following described territory now situated within the exclusive extraterritorial jurisdiction of the City of La Porte. As used herein, the term extraterritorial jurisdiction shall have the same meaning ascribed to it as is ascribed to it in the Municipal Annexation Act of 1963, compiled as Chapter 43, Texas Local Government Code: Boundaries of two tracts of land comprising the Bayshore Municipal Utility District as described in Vernon's Annotated Civil Statutes Article 8280-268, in Harris County, Texas. TRACT NO. 1 BEGINNING at the Southeast corner of the R.V. Whiteside 62.512 acre tract, located in the West right-of-way line of State Highway No. 146, said corner being also the Northeast corner of that certain portion of Shore Acres Addition lying West of State Highway No. 146, and being approzimatedly 5,500 feet South and 5,950 feet East of the Northwest corner of the W.P. Harris Survey, Abstract 30: THENCE North 89 deg. 59'45" West, along the South line of said R.V. Whiteside 62.512 acre tract, same being the North line of said Shore Acres Addition, a distance of 5,516 feet, more or less, to a point for corner in the East right-of-way line of the G.H. & S.A. Railroad, such point being the Northwest corner of said Shore Acres addition and the Southwest corner of said R.V. Whiteside 62.512 acre tract, THENCE North 7 deg. 18'32" West, along said East right-of-way line of the G.H. & S.A. Railroad, said line being along the West lines, respectively, of the R.V. Whiteside 62.512 acre tract, the Ralph Liles 52.12 acre tract, the Robert F. Harris 107 acre tract, and the Charles E. McCabe 28 acre tract, and continuing along said East right-of-way line of the G.H. & S.A. Railroad, a total distance of 2,350 feet, more or less, to a point of intersection with a Westerly projection of the North right-of-way line of McCabe Road: THENCE in an Easterly direction with said Westerly projection of said North right-of-way line of McCabe Road with said North right-of-way line, same being along the South lines of the B.F. Weems 74 acre tract and Tidewood Addition, and continuing in the same Easterly direction across State Highway l46, a distance of 5,950 feet, more or less, to a point of intersection with the East right-of-way line of State Highway 146: