General and Special Laws of The State of Texas Passed By The Third Called Session of the Fifty-Seventh Legislature and the Regular Session of the Fifty-Eighth Legislature Page: 529
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PORT OF PORT ARTHUR NAVIGATION DISTRICT Ch. 197
said district to procure funds for any lawful purpose provided for in this
Act and when authorized by the majority vote of the qualified property tax-
paying voters of said district at election held for said purpose; providing
the method of holding said election and giving notice thereof and the manner
of issuing said bonds and the duties of the officers with reference thereto,
and the total indebtedness of said bonds shall be limited to twenty-five per
cent (25%) of the assessed property valuation; prescribing the form of bal-
lot to be used in said election for the issuance of bonds; providing for the
refunding of the district's bonds; providing said district shall have powers
granted by General and Special Laws appertaining to navigation districts;
insofar as not inconsistent with the terms hereof and permitting said dis-
trict to pledge certain revenues of said district to the payment of its reve-
nue bonds; providing that bonds shall be eligible for certain investments
and eligible to secure certain funds; providing that bonds issued under the
provisions hereof shall be submitted to the Attorney General for approval
and registered with the State Comptroller, after which such bonds shall
be incontestable; providing that the Commissioners Court of Jefferson Coun-
ty shall upon requisition of the board of port commissioners assess and levy
taxes for said district; providing that the levying and assessing of taxes,
the equalization thereof and the collection of same and the duties of all
officers in connection therewith shall be governed by the General Laws of
Texas relating to state and county taxes; providing compensation for the
officers charged with the levying, assessing, and collecting of said taxes;
providing a lien to secure taxes of said district; providing limitation shall
not run against the same or any other public charge thereof; providing this
Act shall be liberally construed; providing a savings clause; and declar-
ing an emergency.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas:
Section 1. There is hereby created within the State of Texas, in addi-
tion to the districts into which the state has heretofore been divided, a
port district to be known as the Port of Port Arthur Navigation District
of Jefferson County, Texas, situated in Jefferson County, Texas, with
boundaries as hereinafter set out (hereinafter called the district). Such
district shall be and is hereby declared to be a governmental agency and
body politic and corporate with the powers of government and with the
authority to exercise the rights, privileges and functions hereinafter speci-
fied, and the creation of such district is hereby determined to be essential
to the accomplishment of the purposes of Section 59, of Article 16, of the
Constitution of the State of Texas, including (to the extent hereinafter
authorized) the improvement of navigation and the maintenance, develop-
ment, extension and improvement of port facilities, wharf and dock fa-
cilities, and the development of the Port of Port Arthur within the bound-
aries thereof as hereby established, which is declared to be essential to the
general- welfare of the State of Texas for the development of maritime
shipping to and from its ports, and in the interest of national. defense; the
Port of Port Arthur being strategically located on the Gulf Coast with an
inland-protected harbor and in a rapidly developing industrial area where-
in shipyards and shipstoring basins are located, and the creation of said
port district will result in material benefits and improvements to the terri-
tory included therein and in the increase of taxable values of property
included therein, and result in material benefit to that section of the state
in which same is located.
The boundaries of said district in Jefferson County, Texas, are as fol-
lows:
BEGINNING at a point of the junction of the center line of the rights-
of-way of State Highway 87 and the city limits line of the City of Port
Arthur (as it existed on April 20, 1963) in the Neehes River;
THENCE following the city limit line of the City of Port Arthur (as it
existed on April 20, 1963) in the Neches River, southward and westward to
and through Lake Sabine;
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Texas. Legislature. General and Special Laws of The State of Texas Passed By The Third Called Session of the Fifty-Seventh Legislature and the Regular Session of the Fifty-Eighth Legislature, legislative document, 1963; [Austin, Texas]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth221759/m1/865/?q=+date%3A1945-1972: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.