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: 530
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58TH LEGISLATURE--REGULAR SESSION
THENCE continue to follow, westward and northward, the city limit
line of the City of Port Arthur, (as it existed on April 20, 1963) to the
point of junction with the center line of the Sabine-Neches Ship Canal;
THENCE southward and westward along the center line of the Sabine-
Neches Ship Canal to the center line of the Intracostal Canal;
THENCE westward along the center line of the Intracostal Canal to
its junction with the center line of Jefferson County Drainage District
#7 Outfall Canal;
THENCE northward along the center line of Jefferson County Drainage
District #7 Outfall Canal to its junction with the center line of Taylor's
Bayou;
THENCE westward and northward along the center line of Taylor's
Bayou to its junction with the center line of Rodair Gully;
THENCE eastward along the center line of Rodair Gully to the center
line of the rights-of-way of the Vitterbo Road;
THENCE eastward along the center line of the rights-of-way of the
Vitterbo Road to the center line of the rights-of-way line of State Highway
69;
THENCE southward along the center line of the rights-of-way of State
Highway 69 to the center line of the rights-of-way of FM Road No. 365;
THENCE eastward along the center line of the rights-of-way of FM
Road No. 365 to the center line of the rights-of-way of State Highway 347;
THENCE southward along the center line of the rights-of-way of State
Highway 347 to the center line of the rights-of-way of State Highway 73;
THENCE southward and eastward along the center line of the rights-
of-way of State Highway 73 to the center line of the rights-of-way of State
Highway 87;
THENCE northward and eastward along the center line of the rights-
of-way of State Highway 87 to its junction with the city limit line of the
City of Port Arthur (as it existed on April 20, 1963) in the Neches River,
the point of the beginning.
Sec. 2. Except as expressly limited by this Act, the district shall have
and is hereby authorized to exercise all powers, rights, privileges and
functions conferred by General Law upon any district or districts created
pursuant to Section 59, Article XVI of the Constitution of the State of
Texas, appropriate to the accomplishment of the purposes of this Act.
Without limitation of the generality of the foregoing, the district shall
have and is hereby authorized to exercise the following powers, rights,
privileges and functions:
(a) The right, power and authority to acquire, purchase, take over,
construct, maintain, repair, operate, develop, and regulate wharves, docks,
warehouses, grain elevators, dumping facilities, belt railways, lands and
all other facilities or aids consistent to or necessary to the operation or
development of ports or waterways within the district, provided that such
specified facilities or other facilities or aid shall not be of a type or kind
used or engaged in competition with tugs, barges, salvage operations
and ship building or ship repair operations, in addition to the power to
issue bonds for the purposes above enumerated, and for the purpose of
acquiring necessary or proper lands, rights-of-way, dumping grounds, ex-
tension or improvement of belt railway lines, or construction or improve-
ments of wharves, docks, or other facilities or aids to navigation, and to
secure such obligations by liens upon properties acquired, constructed or
improved, and pledge available revenues as additional security, and said
district shall have the right to borrow funds for current expenses and to
evidence the same by warrants, but such warrants shall never exceed the
anticipated revenues and may bear not to exceed six per cent (6%) in-
terest;
530Ch. 197
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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/m1/866/?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.