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ORDINANCE NO. 900
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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 HEARD; 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
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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 Article 970a,
Vernon's Annotated Texas Statutes:
BEING a tract of land out of the Johnson Hunter Survey
A-35 and the W. P. Harris Survey A-30 and being more
particularly described by metes and bounds as follows:
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BEGINNING at the intersection of the North right-of-
way line of West "0" Street said line also being the
South line of the existing city limits of the City of
La Porte with the East right-of-way line of new State
Highway No. 146;
THENCE in a Southerly direction with the East right-of-
way line of new State Highway No. 146 to its intersection
with the North city limits of the City of Shoreacres
for a point;
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THENCE West with the North city limit line of the' City
of Shoreacres over and acroSs new State Highway No. 146
to its intersection with the West right-of-way line of
new State Highway No. 146 for a point;
THENCE in a Northerly direction with the West right-
of-way line of new State Highway No. 146 to its inter-
section with the North right-of-way line of West "0"
Street said point also being in the South city limit
of the City of La Porte for a point;
THENCE East with the South city limit of the City of
La Porte and the North right-of-way line of West "0"
Street over and across new State Highway No. 146 to
the POINT OF BEGINNING.
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Ordinance No.
900
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Section 2. The City Commission of the City of La Porte
hereby calls a public hearing at which all interested persons
shall have an opportunity to be heard upon such proposal to
annex the territory described above, which hearing shall be
held in the City Commission Chambers, City Hall, City of
La Porte, La Porte, Texas, at seven o'clock P.M. on the
15th day of November, A.D. 1971.
Section 3. The annexation proceeding of which notice
of intention to annex is given by this Ordinance shall be
instituted not less than ten (10) days nor more than twenty
(20) days subsequent to such public hearing.
Section 4'. The City Clerk of the City of La Porte is
hereby directed to cause notice of such public hearing to be
given by publication of this Ordinance in the La Porte-Bayshore
Sun, a newspaper having general circulation in the City of
La Porte and in the territory proposed to be annexed, such
publication to be made at least once, not more than twenty (20)
days nor ~ess than ten (10) days prior to the date of such
public hearing. Additional notice by certified mail should be
given to railroad companies then serving the city and on the
city' s tax roll:'owhere the right-of-way thereof is included in
the territory to be annexed.
Section 5. This Ordinance shall be effective immediately
upon its passage and approval.
PASSED AND APPROVED this the 1st day of November, 1971.
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a Carlos Sm~th, Mayor
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