By Janek H.B. No. 1976
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the conveyance of certain state-owned real property in
1-3 Harris County to the City of Bellaire.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. AUTHORIZATION FOR CONVEYANCE. (a) The Texas
1-6 Department of Transportation shall convey without compensation, on
1-7 behalf of the state, all of the interest of the state in the real
1-8 property described by Section 3 of this Act and all improvements on
1-9 the property to the City of Bellaire.
1-10 (b) This conveyance is in recognition of the development of
1-11 the property described by Section 3 of this Act by the City of
1-12 Bellaire as a public park and the city's continued maintenance of
1-13 the property as a public park.
1-14 (c) Section 31.158, Natural Resources Code, and Chapter 99,
1-15 General Laws, Acts of the 42nd Legislature, Regular Session, 1931
1-16 (Article 6673a, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), do not apply to the
1-17 conveyance authorized by this section.
1-18 SECTION 2. REVERSION OF TITLE. If the City of Bellaire
1-19 ceases to use the real property described by Section 3 of this Act
1-20 as a public park, all right, title, and interest in the property
1-21 reverts to the state.
1-22 SECTION 3. PROPERTY DESCRIPTION. The real property
1-23 authorized to be conveyed under Section 1 of this Act is a 0.4890
1-24 acre (21,299 square feet) tract of land being a portion of Lots 29
2-1 through 36 in Post Oak Court Subdivision recorded in Volume 36,
2-2 Page 49 of the Harris County Map Records and described in deeds
2-3 recorded under Volume 3792, Page 440; Volume 3671, Page 13; Volume
2-4 3600, Page 693; Volume 3685, Page 425; Volume 3675, Page 498;
2-5 Volume 3956, Page 152; Volume 3733, Page 615 and Volume 3725, Page
2-6 635, respectively, of the Harris County Deed Records; being more
2-7 particularly described in metes and bounds as follows:
2-8 BEGINNING at the southwest corner of said Lot 36 and marking
2-9 the intersection of the east right-of-way line of East Jacquet
2-10 Drive (60 feet wide) with the north right-of-way line of Elm Street
2-11 (60 feet wide);
2-12 THENCE, North 02 25' 00" West, 455.00 feet along said east
2-13 right-of-way line of East Jacquet Drive to a 5/8-inch iron rod
2-14 found marking the northwest corner of aforementioned Lot 30 and
2-15 being the beginning of a tangent curve to the left;
2-16 THENCE, 42.36 feet along the arc of said curve, and east
2-17 right-of-way line of East Jacquet Drive to the left having a radius
2-18 of 55.00 feet, a central angle of 44 07' 41", a long chord bearing
2-19 North 24 28' 51" West, 41.32 feet to a 5/8-inch iron rod found
2-20 marking the most westerly corner of aforementioned Lot 29 for
2-21 corner;
2-22 THENCE, North 43 26' 19" East, 77.16 feet leaving said east
2-23 right-of-way line to a point for corner;
2-24 THENCE, South 02 24' 08" East, 547.02 feet along a fence
2-25 line to a point marking the intersection of said line with the
2-26 aforementioned north right-of-way line of Elm Street for corner;
2-27 THENCE, South 87 35' 00" West, 39.72 feet along said north
3-1 right-of-way line of Elm Street to the POINT OF BEGINNING,
3-2 CONTAINING 0.4890 acre of land in Harris County, Texas.
3-3 SECTION 4. EMERGENCY. The importance of this legislation
3-4 and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-5 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-6 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-7 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
3-8 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
3-9 passage, and it is so enacted.