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.- . . .,.-, e , ORDINANCE NO. 972 AN ORDINANCE DECLARING THE INTENTION OF THE CITY OF LA PORTE TO INSTITUTE PROCEEDINGS TO ANNEX CERTAIN TERRITORY; CALLING A PUBLIC HEARING AT WHICH ALL INTERESTED PARTIES SHALL HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO BE HERAD; PROVIDING FOR THE PUBLICATION OF NOTICE OF SUCH HEARING BY THE PUBLICATION OF THIS ORDINANCE; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE HEREOF. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF LA PORTE: , Section 1. The City Commission of the City of La Porte hereby declares its intention to institute annexation proceed- ings, 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 ofi,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 Article 970a, Vernon's Annotated Texas Statutes: TRACT NO. 1 BEING a tract of land out of the Johnson Hunter Survey, A-35, and the W. P. Harris Survey, A-30, Harris County, Texas, and being more particularly described by metes and bounds as follows: BEGINNING at the intersection of the North right-of- way line of West "0" Street with the West right-of-way line of new State Highway No. 146, said point being on the existing city limit line of the City of La Porte; THENCE in a Southerly direction following the West right-of-way line of said new State Highway 146 to the point of intersection with the South right-of-way line of McCabe Road; THENCE in Westerly direction along the South right- of-way line of McCabe Road and a Westerly projection of the South right-of-way line of McCabe Road to the point of intersection with the West right-of-way line of the T.&N.O. Railroad; THENCE in a Northerly direction along the West right-of- way line of the T.&N.O. Railroad to the point of inter- section with a Westerly projection of the North right-of-way line of West "0" Street; THENCE in an Easterly direction along the Westerly projection of the North right-of-way line of West "0" Street and the North right-of-way line of West "0" Street to the POINT OF BEGINNING.