HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 5081 ORDINANCE NO. urn OFFICIAL RECORD
AN ORDINANCE EXTENDING THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF THE CITY SECRETARY
CITY OF FORT WORTH SO AS TO INCLUDE IN SAID CITY FT. WORTH, TEX.
THE TRINITY RIVER AND THE LAND LYING ON BOTH SIDES
THEREOF FOR A DISTANCE OF TWENTY-FIVE HUNDRED
(2,500) FEET MORE OR LESS FROM THE THREAD OF SAID
STREAM; AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF FORT WORTH TO
SECURE LAND WITHIN THE TERRITORY SO ANNEXED FOR
THE IMPROVEMENT OF NAVIGATION AND FOR THE PURPOSE
OF ESTABLISHING AND MAINTAINING WHARVES, DOCKS
AND OTHER .FACILITIES; PROVIDING FOR REGULATION
AND POLICING OF SAID AREA; PROVIDING FOR PUBLICA-
TION; PRESCRIBING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; AND
NAMING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
WHEREAS, under the express provisions of Articles 1183,
1184, 1185 and 1186 of the Revised Civil Statutes of the State
of Texas, the Legislature has authorized cities situated along
and upon navigable streams to extend, by ordinance, their
boundaries so as to include in said cities the navigable
stream and the land lying on both sides thereof for a distance
of twenty-five hundred (2,500) feet or less from the thread
of the stream to a distance of twenty (20) miles or less in
an air line from the ordinary boundaries of said cities,
either above or below the boundaries of said cities, or both,
and granting to said cities within said added territory the
right to purchase or condemn property for navigation and
wharfage and for aids or facil.it-es to either, and granting full
and complete power of regulation of navigation and of wharfage
and over all facilities and aids to either, and full power to
enforce all ordinances for the policing of navigation and
wharfage and all such facilities and aids thereto; and,
WHEREAS, the City of Fort Worth is situated upon a nav-
igable stream, to wit, the Trinity River of Texas, and is act-
ing under a special charter duly authorized by the electorate
on December 11, 1924, and is desirous of extending its bound-
aries in accordance with the authority granted by the• 1,egisla
ture under such statutes; NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
FORT WORTH, TEXAS:
SECTION 1.
That from and after the passage of this ordinance, the
corporate limits of the City of Fort Worth be and are hereby
extended for the limited purposes hereinafter set forth, and
the hereinafter described territory lying adjacent to the City
of Fort Worth is hereby annexed and brought within the cor-
porate limits under the provisions of Articles 1183, 1184, 1185
and 1186 of the Revised Civil Statutes of the State of Texas:
SECTION 2.
That within the territory hereinabove described and
embraced by the extension of the corporate lirt-.,: -,-s c
of Fort Worth, being a strip of land five thousand (5,0001,
feet wide or less and lying on both sides of the Trinity R°_.7er
a distance of twenty-five hundred (2,500) feet or less from
the thread of the stream, the said City of Fort Worth hereby
assumes, and its officers and agents shall have the right,
power and authority to secure land within said territory so
added to said city, by purchase, condemnation or gift, for
the improvement of navigation of the Trinity River either in
conjunction with the United States of America or by the City
of Fort Worth, for the purpose of establishing and maintaining
wharves, docks, railway terminals, spur tracks, warehouses or
any other facilities or aids whatsoever. Provided, further,
that after the passage of this ordinance adding and annexing
such territory to the said city of Fort Worth, the City of
Fort Worth shall have and exercise within said annexed terri-
tory the fullest and most complete power of regulation of navi-
gation and of wharfage, and of wharfage rates, and of all fa-
cilities, conveniences and aids to wharfage or navigation con-
sistent with the Constitution of the State of Texas, and shall
further have authority by its criminal ordinances, or otherwise,
to police the navigation of said waters and the use of said
wharves and facilities and aids to wharfage or navigation, pro-
vided that in all condemnation proceedings under this ordinance
the same procedure shall apply that now applies under the pro-
visions of Articles 3264 through 3271 of the Revised Civil
Statutes of the State of Texas and amendments thereto, and pro-
vided, further, that the powers herein assumed are not intended
to apply, and shall not apply, within the legally annexed ter-
ritory of any city which is already legally incorporated under
the general laws, or under a special charter, or to any land
now legally belonging to any other city or town.
SECTION 3,
That the land and premises included within the cor-
porate limits hereby extended lying beyond the ordinary bound-
aries of said City as they existed prior to the adoption of
this ordinance are not subject to taxation by the City of Fort
Worth and shall not be taxed by said City, nor shall the in-
habitants of said territory so included be entitled to the bene-
fits derived from taxation by said City nor to the rights,
privileges and immunities of citizens thereof by reason of the
extension of said corporate limits in accordance with this
ordinance, unless such property is within the line and within
the limits of the general, city boundaries or limits.
SECTION 4.
That this ordinance shall, and does, hereby repeal
every prior ordinance in conflict herewith, but as to all other
ordinances or sections of ordinances not in direct conflict
herewith, this ordinance shall be and is hereby made cumulative.
SECTION ,5
That this ordinance shall be published one time in a
daily newspaper published in the City of Fort. Worth, Texas, in
accordance with the provisions of section 40, Chapter XXVIII
of the Charter of the City of Fort Worth.
SECTION 6.
It is the intent and purpose of this ordinance to annex
and extend the corporate limits of the City of Fort Worth with
respect to that territory and area lying above or below, or
both, as the case may be, and within twenty-five hundred
(2,500) feet from the thread of the stream of the Trinity
River as said area is described by metes and bounds herein.
If any territory lying more than twenty-five hundred (2,500)
feet from the thread of the stream of the Trinity River is in-
cluded in such description, or if any section, subsection,
clause, sentence, phrase or word of this ordinance be held or
determined to be void, invalid and unconstitutional by a court
of competent jurisdiction, then and i-n that event it is hereby
declared not to be the intention of the city Council to annex
such territory lying more than twenty-five hundred (2,500)
feet from the thread of the stream of the Trinity River or to
adopt such invalid section, subsection, clause, sentence,
phrase or word, and tb.e validi.ty of the remaining portions
shall not be affected thereby.
SECTION 7,
That this ordinance shall become effective and be in
full force and effect. from �r:3 after its passage and publica-
tion in accordance with the provisions of Section 40 of Chapter
XXVIII of the City Charter, and it is so ordained.
APPROVED AS TO FORM AND LEGALITY:
City Attorney
Being a tract of land about 9 miles northeast from the
Courthouse of Tarrant County, Texas, lying in and includ-
ing all or part of the H. Bennett, J. W. Sansom, W. C.
Trimble, P. Witt, W. M. Morris, W. Masters, J. Davis and
J. A. Hust Surveys, and being more fully described as fol-
lows:
Beginning at a point in the present city limit line of
the City of Fort Worth, the north right, of way line of
Randol Mill Road (County Road No. 2021) , 500 feet east
from the centerline of 1-820;
Thence north, along the present city limit line of the
City of Fort Worth, parallel to and 500 feet east from the
centerline of 1-820, to a point 300 feet north from the
south line of the H. Bennett Survey;
Thence northeast, in a straight line along the present
city limit line of the City of Fort Worth, to its inter-
section with the northwest corner of the J. W. Sansom
Survey,
Thence east, along the present city limit line of the City
of Fort Worth, the north line of the J. W. Sansom Survey,
to a point 1,800 feet east from the northwest corner of
the J. W. Sansom Survey;
Thence south, along a line parallel to and 1,800 feet
east from the west line of the J. W. Sansom. Survey, a
distance of 1,300 feet;
Thence east, along a line parallel to and 1,300 feet south
from the north line of the J. W. Sansom Survey, a distance
of 2,200 feet;
Thence south, along a line parallel to and 4,000 feet east
from the west line of the J. W. Sansom Survey, to its in-
tersection with the north line of the W. M. Morris Survey;
Thence east, along the north line of the W. M. Morris Sur-
vey, to the northeast corner of the W. M. Morris Survey;
Thence south, along the east line of the W. M. Morris Sur-
vey, to the northwest corner of the J. Hust Survey;
Thence east, along the north line of the J. Hust Survey,
a distance of 2,000 feet;
Thence south, along a line parallel to and 2,000 feet east
from the west line of the J. Hust Survey, a distance of
700 feet,
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Thence east, along a line parallel to and 700 feet south
from the north line of the J. eust Survey, to its inter-
section with the present city limit line of the city of
Fort wor±u' the west right of way line of aaodol Mill-
Hurst Precinct Line Road;
Thence south, along the present city limit line of the
City of Fort Worth, the west right of way line of aaodnl
Mill-Hurst Precinct Line Road, to its intersection with
the north right of way line of aaudol Mill Road (County
' Road No. 2021) r
Thence westerly, along the present city limit line of the
City of Fort Worth, the north right of way line of xaodnl
Mill Road (county Road No. 2021) , to a point 1'000 feet
west from the east line of the J. Davis Survey;
Thence north, along o line parallel to and 1,000 feet
ncot from the east line of the J. Davis Survey, to a point
800 feet south from the north line of the J. Davis Survey;
zbeoco *eat, along a line parallel to and RDO feet south
from the north lines of the J. Davis and W. Masters Sur-
veys, to a point 600 feet ooat from the neat line of the
W. Masters Survey;
Thence south, along a line parallel to and 600 feet east
from the west line of the W. Masters Survey, to its inter-
section with the present city limit line of the city of
Fort mmrtb, the north right of way line of Raodol Mill Road
(County Road No. zoul) ;
Thence west, along the present city limit line of the
City of Fort Worth, the north right of nay lino of aaudol
Mill Road (County Road No. zoZl) , to the place of begin-
ning, and containing approximately 2.002 square miles.
ORDINANCE
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