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Ord. 0081 1964-02-27AN ORDINANCE DESIGNATING A TIME AND DATE UPON WHICH BRAZORIA COUNTY WATER CONTROL AND IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT NO, 3 SHALL BE ABOLISHED AND THE CITY OF PEARLAND SHALL TAKE OVER ALL PROPERTY AND ASSETS AND ASSUME ALL DEBTS AND PERFORM ALL FUNCTIONS AND SERVICES OF SAID DISTRICT; PROVIDING FOR CERTAIN TAX LEVIES, REFUNDING BONDS, AND RATIFYING ANNEXATION OF TERRITORY; AND CONTAINING OTHER PROVISIONS RELATING TO THE SUBJECT THE STATE OF TEXAS COUNTY OF BRAZORIA The City Council of the City of Pearland, Texas, convened in dst.0_,Liy.., session at the regular meeting place thereof within said City on the 9 4'�� day of 1964, with the following members present, to -wits E. T. Gibbons Mayor David L. Smith, Jr. Alderman Gene Sanders Alderman John Kegley Alderman Tom Alexander Alderman Victor Nolen Alderman and Secretary with the following member(s) absent, to -wit: ' when the following business was transacted: The Mayor introduced an ordinance and moved that it be adopted. The ordinance was read in fu1.i. The motion for adoption was seconded by Alderman vote: j • and carried by the following AYES: Mayor Gibbons, Aldermen Smith, Sanders, Kegley, Alexander and Nolen. 'NOES: None, The ordinance thus adopted follows: AN ORDINANCE DESIGNATING A TIME AND DATE UPON WHICH BRAZORIA COUNTY WATER CONTROL AND IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT NO, 3 SHALL BE ABOLISHED AND THE -CITY OF PEARLAND SHALL TAKE OVER ALL PROPERTY AND ASSETS AND ASSUME ALL DEBTS AND PERFORM ALL FUNCTIONS -AND SERVICES OF SAID DISTRICT; PROVIDING FOR-CERTAIN.TAX LEVIES, REFUNDING BONDS, AND RATIFYING ANNEXATION OF TERRITORY; AND CONTAINING OTHER PROVISIONS RELATING TO THE SUBJECT WHEREAS, on December 26, 1963, the City Council of the City of Pearland, Texas, adopted Ordinance No. 7S receiving and annexing as a part of the said City of Pearland, Texas, that one acre of land out of Tract Seven (7) of the HT & B RR Company Survey, Abstract 240, Section 13, Brazoria County, Texas, lying adjacent to said City and belonging to Brazoria County Water Control and Improve- ment District No, 3 and more fully described in said Ordinance (said territory being the last and only remaining territory of Brazoria County Water Control and Improvement District No, 3 not heretofore included within the boundaries of said City), whereby all of the territory comprising said District was, became, and is now included within the boundaries of said City, and all of the territory com- prising said District has now been annexed to and has become a part of said City; and WHEREAS, said City must within ninety (90) days from December 26, 1963, take over all properties and assets of said District and shallassume all its debts, liabilities and obligations, and shall perform all functions and services of such District, in ac- cordance with law, and particularly Article 1182c-1, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes, as amended; and WHEREAS, an ordinance should be adopted by said City Council designating the time and date uponwhich said City shall take over and such District shall be abolished; Therefore, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PEARLAND, TEXAS: -2- 1. That at / ,t / o'clock ,9 .M., C.S.T., on the j1S oL day of l.-^L-Cs.+.I , 1964, being within ninety (90) days after December 26, 1963 (the effective date of the annexation of territory mentioned in the preamble hereof), the City of Pearland, Texas, shall take over Brazoria County Water Control and Improvement District No. 3 and said District shall, at such time and date, be abolished, and said City shall then take over all properties and assets, shall assume all debts, liabilities and obligations, and shall thereafter perform all functions and services of such District. 2. That such City shall, at such time and on such date, assume all debts, liabilities and obligations of said District, and said City Council shall hereafter levy and cause to be collected, upon all taxable property within said City, taxes sufficient to pay the principal of, and interest on, all such bonds or obligations as they respectively become due and payable, in accordance with law. 3• That such City shall be, and is hereby, authorized hereinafter to issue its refunding bonds to refund any bonds or other obligations, including unpaid earned interest thereon so assumed by said City, such refunding bonds to be issued in the manner provided in the Bond and Warrant Law of 1931, as amended, provided that it shall not be necessary to give any notice of in- tention to issue such refunding bonds and no right of referendum thereon shall be available, 4. That, although such City does not have outstanding bonds payable from, and secured by, a pledge of the net revenues of the City's waterworks and sanitary sewer system (the City having no such system), said District does have a waterworks and sanitary sewer system and has outstanding bonds and obligations payable from the net revenues of such system, and said City should and shall take over and operate such system and properties and shall apply the net revenues from the operation thereof to the payment of such outstanding District revenue bonds, warrants or other bonded obligations. 5. That the Mayor and City Secretary are hereby authorized and directed to do any and all things necessary and convenient to carry out the purpose and intent of this ordinance. 6. That this ordinance shall talce effect from and after the date of its passage. PASSED AND APPROVED this 17 day of Jay, 1964. ATTEST: Pearland, Texas (SEAL) Le; Mayor, 'City of Pearland, Texas THE STATE OF TEXAS COUNTY OF BRAZORIA I, the undersigned, Secretary of the City of Pearland, Texas, do hereby certify that the attached and foregoing is a true and correct copy of an ordinance adopted by the City Council of said City at a meeting thereof held the a % � day of Ef 0 1964, together with an excerpt from the minutes of said meeting, showing the adoption thereof, as same appears of record in the official minutes of said City Council on file in my office. WITNESS MY HAND AND THE OFFICIAL SEAL OF SAID CITY, this a 7 day of may, 1964. 4„) Secretary,4ty o Pearland, Texas (SEAL)