OR 60-25 Annexation
6025
AN ORDINANCE ANNEXING CERTAIN TERRITORY CONTIGUOUS
TO AND ADJOINING THE TOWN OF COPPELL, TEXAS, TO
THE TOWN OF COPPELL, TEXAS, AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
WHEREAS, the Mayor has certified to the Town Council of the Town of
Coppell, Texas, the affidavit of A. D. Tucker, Joe C. Davis, Jr. and Mrs.
Joe C. Davis, Jr., pertaining to the vote of the inhabitants of the herein-
after described territory with reference to the annexation of such terri-
tory to the Town of Coppell, Texas; and
WHEREAS, the Town Council have investigated into said election and
have determined that such election was in all things regular and in con-
formity with law, and that a majority of the inhabitants who are qualified
to vote for members of the State Legislature voted in favor of annexation;
and
WHEREAS, the Town Council have investigated into and have determined
that it would be advantageous to the Town of Coppell, Texas, and its in-
habitants, as well as the inhabitants of the hereinafter described terri-
tory, to annex such territory to the Town of Coppell, Texas; and
WHEREAS, the Town Council have determined that such territory is
contiguous to and adjoins the Town of Coppell, Texas, and that no part
of such territory is more than one-half mile in width from the existing
corporate limits of such Town;
THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE TOWN COUNCIL OF THE TOWN OF COPPELL,
1. That the territory described as follows:
Being part of the McKinney and Williams Survey,
Abstract No. 1054, Dallas County, Texas, and
being more particularly described by metes and
bounds as follows:
BEGINNING at a Northwest corner of the City of
Dallas, Texas, in the centerline of New Belt Line
Road at Sanders Loop, a point in the corporate
limits of the.Town of Coppell, Texas; ·
TNENCE East with the corporate limits of the City
of Dallas, Texas, to an angle corner in the
corporate limits of the City of Dallas, Texas;
THENCE North with the corporate limits of the City
of Dallas, Texas, to the South right-of-way line
of the Coppell-Carrollton Road;
THENCE West with the South right-of-way line of
the Coppell-Carrollton Road to the centerline of
New Belt Line Road, a point in the corporate limits
of the Town of Coppell, Texas;
THENCE South with the corporate limits of the Town
of Coppell, Texas, to the place of Beginning, being
the same property described as the Sanders Sub-
division, recorded in Vol. 32, Page 229, Subdivision
Records, Dallas County, Texas.
be and the same is hereby annexed to the Town of Coppell, Texas.
2. That from and after the passage of this ordinance, said terri-
tory shall be a part of said Town of Coppell, Texas, and the inhabitants
thereof shall be entitled to all of the rights, privileges and immunities
of all other citizens of the Town of Coppell, Texas, and shall be bound
by all of the ordinances and regulations enacted pursuant to and in con-
formity ~lth the General Laws of the State of Texas.
The fact that the Town of Coppell, Texas, and its inhabitants,
are in immediate need of the relief afforded by the provisions of this
ordinance creates an emergency and an imperative public necessity demand-
ing that any and all rules requiring ordinances to be passed at more than
one meeting be suspended and that this ordinance take effect immediately
upon its passage, and it is so ordained.
Ordinance 60-25 was passed and approved by the Town Council
of the Town of Coppell, Texas on October 3, 1960.