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Ordinance No. 1,818E
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ORDINANCE NO. 1818
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BAYTOWN,
TEXAS, AUTHORIZING THE CONVEYANCE OF RIGHTS OF WAY AND
PIPELINE EASEMENTS UNDER, UPON, OVER, AND THROUGH LAND
IN WHICH THE CITY OF BAYTOWN OWNS AN UNDIVIDED NINE -
TENTHS (9/10) INTEREST AND DIRECTING THE MAYOR TO
EXECUTE AND THE CITY CLERK TO ATTEST TO INSTRUMENTS
GRANTING RIGHTS OF WAY AND PIPELINE EASEMENTS TO
HOUSTON LIGHTING AND POWER COMPANY AND ARCO PIPE LINE
COMPANY AND PROVIDING FOR THE EFFECTIVE.DATE HEREOF.
WHEREAS, Houston Lighting & Power Company and Arco Pipe
Line Company are in need of purchasing rights of way and
pipeline easements upon, over, and through land owned by the
City of Baytown; and
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Baytown has
determined that the City's use of the property in question
will not be impaired by granting said rights of way and
pipeline easements; and
WHEREAS, Houston Lighting & Power Company and Arco Pipe
Line Company have offered to pay the sum of Five Hundred and
..No /100 ($500.00) Dollars for said rights of way and pipeline
easements under, upon, over, and through the property described
in Exhibit "A" attached hereto, in which the City of Baytown
owns an undivided Nine - Tenths (9/10) interest; and
WHEREAS, the Tax Department of the City of Baytown has
made an appraisal of said rights of way and pipeline easements
and has determined that the offer of Houston Lighting /&
Power and Arco Pipe Line Company is in excess of the fair
market value of said rights of way and pipeline easements;
and
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WHEREAS, Houston Lighting & Power and Arco Pipe Line
Company have the power of eminent domain with the power to
condemn property which it cannot purchase by agreement; and
WHEREAS, in order to avoid the time consuming, tedious,
and costly condemnation proceedings, the City Council of the
City of Baytown deems that it is in the best interest of the
City to convey the rights of way and pipeline easements in
question in consideration of the above stated amounts; NOW
THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
BAYTOWN, TEXAS: `
Section 1: That the City Council of the City of Baytown
for the consideration herein set forth does hereby authorize
the conveyance to Houston Lighting & Power Company and Arco
Pipe Line Company of said rights of way and pipeline easements
for the construction, laying, maintenance, operation, alteration,
repairing, removal, changing of size and replacement of
pipelines and appurtenances thereto under, upon, over, and
through certain property in which the City of Baytown owns
an undivided Nine - Tenths (9/10) interest and described in
Exhibit "A" which is attached hereto and made a part hereof
for all intents and purposes.
Section 2: That upon receipt of the consideration set
forth herein, the Mayor is hereby authorized and directed to
execute and the City Clerk to attest to instruments granting
such rights of way and pipeline easements.
Section 3: That the City Council hereby authorizes the
acceptance of the sum of Five Hundred and No /100 ($500.00)
Dollars as consideration for said rights of way and pipeline
easements described in Exhibit "A."
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Section 4: This ordinance shall take effect from and
after its passage by the City Council of the City of Baytown.
INTRODUCED, READ and PASSED by the affirmative vote of
the City Council of the City of Baytown this 26th day
of June , 1975.
ATTEST:
® EDNA OLIVER, City Clerk
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APPROVED:
NEEL R CHARDSON, City Attorney
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TOM GENTRY, Mayor
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E X H I B I T "A"
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EXHIBIT "A"
® A thirty (30) foot wide strip of land containing 0.262 of an acre of land out of a
372 acre tract of land in the Nathaniel Lynch Survey, Abstract No. 44, Harris County,
Texas, said 372 acre tract of land being the same property described by two (2)
separate Deeds dated December 15, 1972, from Louis F. Bonner, Trustee and San Jacinto
Wharf Company to the herein Grantors and recorded in the Official Public Records of
Real Property, Harris County, Texas, bearing Film Code No.'s 155 -21 -0231 and 154 -39-
0069, respectively. Said thirty (30) foot wide easement is described by a centerline
description as follows, all coordinates and bearings being referred to the Texas
Plane Coordinate System South Central Zone as established by the U. S. Coast and
Geodetic Survey in 1934 and based on the position of U. S. C. & G. S. triangulation
® station "Davis - 1900 ": X = 3,260,508.34; Y = 713,137.51:
BEGINNING at a point having coordinates X = 3,254,808.06
and Y = 712,288.22, located in the southerly line of said
372 acre tract of land, same being the water's edge of the
Houston Ship Channel, from which beginning point, a copper
weld rod called the northwesterly corner of an 8.0574 acre
tract of land conveyed to Humble Pipe Line Company by a
Deed.recorded in Volume 6428, Page 442 of the Harris County
Deed Records, same being an interior corner of said 372
acre tract of land, bears N. 79° 22' 10" E., 1436.97 feet;
THENCE, N. 26 °.56' 10" E., a distance of 270.00 feet to a
point for angle, from which point, said called copper weld
rod, bears S. 620 28' 10" E., 346.39 feet;
THENCE, N. 400 51' 40" E., a distance of 110.00 feet to
the POINT OF TERMSNUS of the herein described centerline
located in the northerly line of said 372 acre tract of
land, same being the water's edge of Scott Bay.
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