§ 9-101. Created; boundaries described; taxation by City; City services to be provided.

There is hereby created along the Savannah River, both east and west of the present limits of the City of Savannah, areas to be known as industrial areas; said industrial areas shall include all the land and improvements located within the following boundaries:

Industrial area No. 1. Beginning at the city limits of Savannah on the west and including all of the property within the following boundaries: Bounded on the east by the present city limits of Savannah; on the north by the Savannah River and the present city limits of Savannah; on the west by Brampton Road; and on the south by Highway No. 17, commonly known as the Port Wentworth Road.

Industrial area No. 2. Including all of the lands within the following boundaries: Bounded on the west by the present city limits of the City of Savannah; on the north by the Savannah River; on the east by St. Augustine Creek, also known as extension of Wilmington River to the Savannah River, and on the south by the southern boundary of the right-of-way of the Central of Georgia Railway property, formerly known as the Tybee Division; and on the west by the present eastern limits of the City of Savannah; except, the following:

All that tract or parcel of land lying and being in the 5th G.M. District of Chatham County, Georgia, east of the City of Savannah and known as the southern portion of the Terry-Brittain tract and being more particularly described as follows: Beginning at the point of intersection of the northern line of President Street Extension with the eastern line of the Shipyard Road, said point of beginning being forty-five and twelve hundredths (45.12) feet easterly, as measured along the northern side of President Street Extension from the eastern line of property of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, and from said point of beginning running thence in a northerly direction along the eastern line of said Shipyard Road a distance of six hundred thirty (630) feet to a concrete monument on the eastern line of said road; running thence in an easterly direction along a line forming an interior angle of 109 degrees 19 minutes 38 seconds with the preceding line a distance of twelve hundred twenty-six and thirty-one hundredths (1226.31) feet to a concrete monument on the eastern line of said Terry-Brittain tract; running thence in a southerly direction along the eastern line of said Terry-Brittain tract, said line forming an interior angle of 65 degrees 25 minutes 22 seconds with the preceding line, a distance of nine hundred sixty-three and fifty hundredths (963.50) feet to the north line of President Street; thence in a westerly direction along the north line of President Street ten hundred seventy-one and seventy-seven hundredths (1071.77) feet to the point of beginning; said tract containing 21.02 acres, more or less.

Industrial area No. 3. Including all the land known as Hutchinson Island to the low-water mark of said island lying and being between the Savannah River and what is commonly known as Back River, said tax not to be applicable to said area until services are able to be furnished by said city. Wherever the language "present city limits" is used hereinbefore in describing the said boundaries, said language shall be taken and accepted to mean the present city limits as they existed January 1, 1950.

Be it further resolved by the authority aforesaid that said industrial areas as above described, which are not included within the corporate limits of Savannah and shall not hereafter be included within the limits of the City of Savannah except by process of constitutional amendment, shall, nevertheless, be subject to taxation by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah in a different manner from which other land and improvements are taxed and in a different amount. The Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah are hereby authorized and empowered to levy taxes as against land and improvements located within said areas; the levying of taxes shall be limited to five (5) mills on the dollar and the assessment of said property shall be the same assessment as is made by the County of Chatham on the tax returns of the property and improvements located within said area.

Be it further resolved that in consideration of the said taxes to be paid within said industrial areas that it is mandatory that the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah furnish the following city services, to wit: water service at prevailing industrial rates and services of the fire department. The Mayor and Aldermen are hereby expressly prohibited from exercising regulatory licensing or any other municipal or other governmental function or police jurisdiction over said areas and the police jurisdiction over said areas shall be retained as now in effect under the jurisdiction of the Chatham County police.

(1950 Ga. Laws, page 444, § 1)