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e e Section 66-149. SUNSET PROVISION (a) These Guidelines and Criteria are effective February 14,2005, and will remain in force until January 31, 2007, at which time all tax abatement contracts created pursuant to these provisions will be reviewed by the City to determine whether the goals have been achieved. Based on that review, the Guidelines and Criteria will be modified, renewed, or eliminated. (b) This policy is mutually exclusive of existing Industrial District Contracts and owners of real property in areas deserving of special attention as agreed by the affected jurisdictions. Section 66-150. LIMITATIONS The adoption of the guidelines and criteria by the city council of the City of La Porte does not: (1) Limit the discretion of the city council of the City of La Porte to decide whether to enter into a specific tax abatement agreement; (2) Limit the discretion of the city council of the City of La Porte to delegate to its employees the authority to determine whether or not the governing body should consider a particular application or request for tax abatement; or (3) Create any property, contract, or other legal right in any person to have the city council of the City of La Porte consider or grant a specific application or request for tax abatement. Section 66-151. NONAPPLICABLE AREAS; EXCEPTION The city council of the City of La Porte hereby establishes the policy of the City of La Porte, that tax abatement agreement applications will not be accepted for areas within the any existing Industrial District or Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone of the City of La Porte or any Industrial District or Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone, which may be created. However, as to any portion of such areas which are not within the corporate limits of the City of La Porte, Harris County Commissioners Court may establish tax abatement agreements for the benefit of itself, and taxing units other than the City of La Porte having jurisdiction over said area. Section 2. The City Council officially finds, determines, recites, and declares that a sufficient written notice of the date, hour, place and subject of this meeting of the City Council was posted at a place convenient to the public at the City Hall of the City for the time required by law preceding this meeting, as required by the Open Meetings Law, Chapter 551, Texas Government Code; and that this meeting has been open to the public as required by law at all - 14-