Ordinance No. 5000
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" ORDINANCE I`0. 500
AN ORDINANCE ENL,ItGiNG Ah'D EXTENDING THE BOUNDARY
LIMITS OF THE CITY OF .BAYTOPIN, TEXAS, AND ANNEX-
ING ADDITIONAL ADJACENT TERRITORY TO SAID CITY,
• ALL OF 1 11CH IS DESCRIBED HEREIN; CONTAINING A
SAVINGS CLAUSE, AND PnOVMING FOR THE PUBLICATION
AND PASSAGE OF THIS ORDINANCE IN THE I-TANNER PRO -
V-IDED IN ARTICLE I, SECTION 9, OF THE CHARTER OF
THE CITY OF BAYT017N.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BAYTOVJW-
Section 1: Intent And Purpose Of The Ordinance. The City Council of the
City of Baytown, acting pursuant to Article I, Section 9, of the Charter of said
City; hereby declares that it is necessary that the hereinafter described terri-
tory lying adjacent to the City be annexed and the existing boundary limits of
the City be extended to include such territory. The purpose and intent of this
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extension of the boundary limits of the City of Baytown is to take care of said
City's present needs for additional territory and the reasonably anticipated fu-
ture growth and expansion of the City.
Section _2: That the boundary limits of the City of Baytown, Texas, he en-
larged and extended as hereinafter set out so as to include within the boundary
limits of said City all that territory lying adjacent to said City within the fol-
lowing described lines, to -wit:
BEGINNING at the point of intersection of the West line of
Ashbel Smith / -Vhe East line of Annie Wright Tract, the
Northerly line of San Jacinto Bay, the same being South 09
degrees 40 minuses East 35% varas (990.27 ft.) from the
Southwest corner of william Scott Lower Leaguo;
THENCE, North 50 degrees 30 minutes'East, and along the
East line of the Annie iiright Tract, to an old fence row,
1370.8 feet to corner;
THENCE, North 52 degrees hest, with the fence rote in the
Annie t1right Tract line, 343 feet to corner, being an intra
corner of this Tract;
THENCE, with the East line of the Annie Uright tract, North
19 degrees 11 minutes East, to a point situated South 19 de-
grees 11 minutes West 620 feet from the Northeast corner of
the Annie Wright Tract, and said point further described as
situated South 19 degrees 11 ninutes Vest 1302.41 feet from
the Southerly right -of -way line of State Highway 146;
THENCE, over and across the Ashbel Smith Land Company Tract,
North 07 degrees 09 minutes 06 seconds East, 8613.14 feet to
corner, said corner being an iron axle in the centerline of
Pine Gully at its point of confluence with the Pest line of
Cedar Bayou Stream, and said corner being the Southeast cor-
ner of Ashbel Smith Land Company Tract; and corner being fur-
ther described as the Northeast corner of the tract awarded
the Defendants in Cause No. 33763 - Jessie K. Humason, et al
-vs- Thomas B. Kittredge, et al, by the 61st District Court
-of Harris County, Texas;
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® THENCE, South 35 dery =•ees 20 minutes Pest, ebbing the !'festern
line of the land allotted to Defendants in said Cause above,
2692 varas (7338.8 ft.) more or less to the North bank of San
Jacinto Bay, being the Southwest corner of the land allotted
to said Defendants, and the Southwest corner of the tract al-
loted to the Plaintiff in said Cause;
THENCE, Westerly along the bank of said San Jacinto Bay with
its meanders to the PLACE OF BEGINNING.
Section 3: That the above described additional territory and area so
annexed shall be a part of the City of BaytoWl, and the property so added to
said City shall bear its prc rata part of the taxes levied by the City of Bay-
town and the inhabitants thereof shall be entitled to all the rights and privi-
leges of all the citizens and shall be bound by the acts,-ordinances, regula-
tions and provisions of the Charter of the City of Baytown.
Section 9: That if any portion or portions of the above described terri-
tory is validly included within the territory limits of another city or town,
then such portion'or portions of the above described territory is hereby ex-
cluded and the remaining territory is hereby annexed to the City of Baytown,
and the boundary limits of said city are hereby amended to conform to the boun-
dary limits of such other city or town or such other cities or towns along the
area of the conflict.
Section 5: That if any portion or portions of the above described terri-
tory may become included within the limits of another city or town, by reason
® of a valid ann-nxation ordin��nce heretofore introduced before the Council, Com-
mission or other governing body of such city or town, then such portion or por-
tions of the above described territory is hereby excluded from the limits of
the City of Baytown and the remaining territory is hereby annexed to the City
of Baytown and the boundary limits of said City of Baytown are hereby amended
to conform to the boundary limits of such other city or town or such other
cities or towns along the area of the conflict.
Section 6: That if any legal impediment exists preventing the valid an-
nexation of any portion of the above described territory to the City of Baytown,
then such portion of the above described territory is hereby excluded and the
remaining territory is hereby annexed to the City of Baytown and the boundary
® limits of said City of Baytown are hereby amended to conform to the territory
so annexed.
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Section , 7: If any provision, exception, section, paragraph, sentence,.
clause or phrase of this ordinance or-the application of same to any person or
set of circumstances or to any particular tract or parcel of land, shall for
any reason be he?d unconstitutional, void or invalid, such invalidity shall not
affect the validity of the remaii;ng provisions of this ordinance or their ap-
plication to other persons or sets of circumstances or to other tracts or par-
cels of land included in the territory hereinabove described in Section 2 of
this ordinance.
Section 8: That this ordinance upon and after its introduction shall be
published and finally acted upon in the manner provided in Article I, Section 9,
® of the Charter of the City of Baytown.
IrqrRODUCED, READ and PASSED by the affirmative vote of a majority of the
City Council of the City of BaytoM on this the 10th day of July, 1958.
ATTEST:
Edna Oliver, City Clerk
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H. Pruett, Nayor