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• • ORDINANCE NO. 96 2124 AN ORDINANCE HARING FINDINGS OF FACT; AIITHORIZING THE RE-CONVEYANCE BY REVERTER OF A 4.069 ACRE TRACT OF LAND IN THE FORMER HAYSHORE MIINICIPAL IITILITY DISTRICT, TO THE CARLA COMPANY, ET AL; 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 1. In 1962, the Carla Company, Francis Investment Company, and Houston Realty Sales Company executed a deed to Bayshore Municipal Utility District, of a 4.069 acre tract of land on the Southern Pacific Railroad right-of-way, near the intersection of new Highway 146 at Shoreacres Boulevard, for the specific use as a tract for treatment and/or transmittal of sewage. The deed, which is recorded under Harris County Clerk's file No. B617065, and a copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit "A", incorporated by reference herein, and made.a part hereof for all purposes, contains a right of reverter when such use ceases. Section 2. Bayshore Municipal Utility District ceased to use the property for the stated purposes, prior to its annexation by the City of La Porte, and the City Council of the City of La Porte finds that the City of La Porte has no need to use the property for the transmittal or treatment of sewage. Therefore, this tract of land has reverted to the grantors in the deed, by operation of law. Section 3. The City Manager is hereby authorized to execute, and the City Secretary is authorized to attest the execution of a deed in form attached hereto as Exhibit "B", incorporated by reference herein and made a part hereof for all purposes. Section 4. 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