Tex.
Spec. Dist. Local Laws Code Section 5007.002
Creation of District; Validation; Territory
(a)
That, effective June 6, 1927, the Harris County Houston Ship Channel Navigation District of Harris County, Texas, in Harris County, as hereinafter described by metes and bounds, is hereby created and established under authority of Article 3, Section 52, of the Constitution of the State of Texas, for the purpose of the development of deep water navigation and the improvement of rivers, bays, creeks, streams, and canals within or adjacent to the authority, including the Houston Ship Channel and dredge material management areas, and to construct and maintain canals or waterways to permit navigation or in aid thereof and for the purpose of and authority to acquire, purchase, undertake, construct, maintain, operate, develop, and regulate wharves, docks, warehouses, grain elevators, bunkering facilities, belt railroads, floating plants, lighterage, lands, dredge material management areas, towing facilities, and all other facilities or aids incident to or necessary to the operation or development of ports or waterways within the authority, including the Houston Ship Channel and dredge material management areas, as provided in Chapter 9 of the Revised Statutes of 1925; and all orders of the Commissioners’ Court of Harris County, Texas, and of the Navigation Commissioners, heretofore made in respect to the creation of such authority and the authorization and issuance of the bonds of said authority are hereby in all things ratified, confirmed, and validated.(b)
The authority herenow created and established after consideration of the benefits to the property therein located, is described by metes and bounds as follows, to-wit:-
Source:
Section 5007.002 — Creation of District; Validation; Territory, https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/SD/htm/SD.5007.htm#5007.002 (accessed Jun. 5, 2024).
