Private Acts of 1949 Chapter 688

SECTION 1. That the Kingsport Long Island Utility District of Sullivan County, Tennessee, heretofore created by decree of the County Judge of said County, rendered on March 26, 1943, pursuant to a petition, notice, and hearing, is hereby found and declared to be a validly organized and existing utility district of the State of Tennessee under the provisions of the Utility District Act of 1937, same being Chapter 248 of the 1937 Public Acts of Tennessee, together with all amendments thereto.

SECTION 2. That the boundaries of The Kingsport Long Island Utility District of Sullivan County, Tennessee, shall be as follows: BEGINNING at the northwest corner of the southwest abutment of the bridge over the Holston River on the Horse Creek Road, said point of beginning being a corner in the boundaries of the city limits of the City of Kingsport, thence with the low water marks or line of the southwest side of the Holston River as it meanders, upstream in a southeasterly direction 5,300
feet more or less to a stake where the Holston River and the slough on the southwest side of Long Island (Cherokee Lsland) [sic] divide; thence in a northwesterly direction with the low water marks or line of said slough, as it meanders 3,400 feet to a stake in the southeast line of Mason Road extended; thence in a northwesterly direction with the low water marks or line of the slough as it meanders 2,700 feet to a stake in the center line of Horse Creek Road and the low water line of the slough; thence with the low water mark or line on the southwest side of Long Island (Cherokee Island) in a northwesterly direction as it meanders, 16,500 feet to a stake at the intersection of the low water lines of the slough and the Holston River at the most westerly point of Long Island (Cherokee Island); thence in an easterly direction with the low water marks or line of Holston River, upstream, as it meanders 4,000 feet more or less to a stone monument on the southwest bank of the Holston River, said monument being a corner in the boundaries of the city limits of the City of Kingsport; thence with the boundaries of the city limits of the City of Kingsport, following said northwest bank, its several courses and distances, in a general southeastern direction and along the northeast edge of Long Island (Cherokee Island) and with the boundaries of the city limits of Kingsport 13,600 feet more or less to the point or place of beginning.

SECTION 3. That all proceedings heretofore taken by the Board of Commissioners of said District in connection with obtaining a water system for said District and in the authorization and sale of $275,000 Waterworks Revenue Bonds of said District, dated March 1, 1949, are hereby validated and legalized.

SECTION 4. That this Act shall take effect from and after its passage, the public welfare requiring it.
Passed: April 8, 1949.