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AN ORDINANCE MAKING CERTAIN FINDINGS; PROVIDING FOR THE
EXTENSION OF CERTAIN BOUNDARY LIMITS OF THE CITY OF FORT
WORTH, TEXAS, AND THE ANNEXATION OF CERTAIN TERRITORY
CONSISTING OF 0.0148 SQUARE MILES, MORE OR LESS, OF LAND,
WHICH SAID TERRITORY LIES ADJACENT TO AND ADJOINS THE
PRESENT BOUNDARY LIMITS OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS;
PROVIDING THAT THE TERRITORY ANNEXED SHALL BEAR ITS
PRO RATA SHARE OF TAXES; PROVIDING THAT THE INHABITANTS
THEREOF SHALL HAVE ALL OF THE PRIVILEGES OF ALL THE
CITIZENS OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS/ PROVIDING THAT THIS
ORDINANCE SHALL AMEND EVERY PRIOR ORDINANCE IN CONFLICT
HEREWITH; PROVIDING THAT THIS ORDINANCE SHALL BE CUMULATIVE
OF ALL PRIOR ORDINANCES NOT IN DIRECT CONFLICT; PROVIDING A
SEVERABILITY CLAUSE AND NAMING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
WHEREAS, a public hearing before the City Council of Fort Worth,
Texas, wherein all interested persons were provided with an opportunity to
be beard on the proposed annexation of the territory hereinafter described,
was held at the City Council Chamber in the City Hall ofFort Worth, Texas,
on the 15th day of February 1971, which date is not more than twenty (20)
nor less than ten (lO) days prior to the institution of annexation
proceedings; and
WHEREAS, notice of such public hearing was published in a newspaper
having general circulation in the City of Fort Worth, Texas, and in the
hereinafter described territory on the 2nd day of February 1971, which date
is not more than twenty (20) nor less than ten (lU) days prior to the date
of such public hearing; and
WHEREAS, the population of the City of Fort Worth, Texas, is in
excess of 376,000 inhabitants; and
WHEREAS, the corporate area of the City of Fort North, Texas was
212'5 square miles on January l, 1071; and
WHEREAS, the hereinafter described territory lies within the
extraterritorial jurisdiction of the City of Fort Worth, Texas; and
WHEREAS, the hereinafter described territory lies adjacent to and
adjoins the City of Fort Worth, Texas; and
WHEREAS, the territory hereinafter described contains approximately
0'0148 square miles;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
FORT WORTH, TEXAS:
SECTION l.
That the following described land and territory located
approximately 9 miles north of the Tarrant County Court House, lying
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adjacent to and adjoining the City of Fort Worth, Texas, is hereby added
to and annexed to the City of Fort Worth, Texas, and said territory herein-
after described shall hereafter be included within the boundary limits of
the City of Fort Worth, Texas, and the present boundary limits of said
City, at the various points contiguous to the area hereinafter described,
are altered and amended so as to include said area within the corporate
limits of the City of Fort Worth, Texas, to wit:
TRACT 1. Being a tract of land approximately 9 miles north of
the Court House of Tarrant County, Texas, and located in the William
Redfield Survey Abstract 1348, more fully described as follows.
BEGINNING at a point in the south right-of-way line of County Road
No. 4006 (Hicks Road), said point being 500 feet northeasterly,
measured at right angles, of the northeasterly right-of-way line
of U.S. Highway 81-287; Thence continuing east along the south
line of said County Road 4005 to a point for corner, said point
being 1210 feet M/L east of the northeasterly right-of-way line
of U.S. Highway 81-287, and also being the northeast corner of a
tract of land containing 19 acres M/L owned by the Texas Livestock,
Marketing Association; thence south along a straight line, said
line being the east boundary of the 19 acre tract, to a point
for corner, said point being 500 feet northeasterly, measured at
right angles, of the northeasterly right-of-way line of U.S.
Highway 81-287; Thence northwesterly along a line 500 feet northeast-
erly of and parallel to the northeasterly right-of-way line of
said Highway 81-287, to the point of beginning; and containing
6.2 acres M/L.
TRACT 2. Being a tract of land approximately 9 miles north of
the Court House of Tarrant County, Texas, and located in the
J. Walker Survey Abstract 1600, more fully described as follows:
BEGINNING at a point 500 feet northeasterly of the northeasterly
right-of-way line, measured at right angles, of U.S. Highway
81-287, said point also being in the north line of a 15.4 acre
tract of land conveyed by T.B. Hart to Allen Blair, Don Chambless,
Bob O'Dell, Dun Norris, (Vista Industries), February ll, 1964,
and recorded on Page 4682, Volume 351, Deed Records of Tarrant
County, Texas; Thence east along said north line of said 15,4
acre tract, and said line projected east to the west right-of-way
line of County Road No. 4105; Thence south along the west line
of said Road 4105 to a point for corner, said point being 600 feet
northeasterly, measured at right angles, of the northeasterly
right-of-way line of U.S. Highway 81-287; Thence northwesterly
along a line 500 feet from and parallel to the northeasterly line
of said Highway 81-287 to the point of beginning; and containing
4.3 acres M/L.
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SECTION 2.
The foregoing-described territory and the area annexed shall be
a part of the City of Fort Worth, Texas, and the property so added hereby
shall bear its pro rata share of the taxes levied by the City of Fort
Worth, Texas, and the inhabitants thereof shall be entitled to all of the
rights and privileges of all the citizens and shall be bound by the acts,
ordinances, resolutions and regulations of the City of Fort Worth, Texas.
SECTION 3.
That this ordinance shall and does hereby amend 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 4,
If any section, subsection, clause, sentence, phrase, or word
of this ordinance is for any reason held void or unconstitutional, by a
court of competent jurisdiction, such invalidity shall not affect the
validity of the remaining sections, subsections, clauses, sentences, phrases,
or words except as the same are inseparable from and indispensable to the
remaining portions of the ordinance.
SECTION 5.
This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after
the date of its passage on first reading and publication and its passage
on second reading as provided for in Section 40 of Chapter XXVIII of the
Charter of the City of Fort Worth and it is so ordained.
APPROVED AS TO FORM AND LEGALITY:
City Attorney
Passed and approved this, the 1971
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