74R10512 MJW-F
By Janek H.B. No. 1976
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1976:
By Hamric C.S.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 Article
1-15 6673a, Revised Statutes, do not apply to the conveyance authorized
1-16 by this section.
1-17 SECTION 2. REVERSION OF TITLE. If the city of Bellaire
1-18 ceases to use the real property described by Section 3 of this Act
1-19 as a public park, all right, title, and interest in the property
1-20 reverts to the state.
1-21 SECTION 3. PROPERTY DESCRIPTION. The real property
1-22 authorized to be conveyed under Section 1 of this Act is a 0.4890
1-23 acre (21,299 square feet) tract of land being a portion of Lots 29
1-24 through 36 in Post Oak Court Subdivision recorded in Volume 36,
2-1 Page 49 of the Harris County Map Records and described in deeds
2-2 recorded under Volume 3792, Page 440; Volume 3671, Page 13; Volume
2-3 3600, Page 693; Volume 3685, Page 425; Volume 3675, Page 498;
2-4 Volume 3956, Page 152; Volume 3733, Page 615 and Volume 3725, Page
2-5 635, respectively, of the Harris County Deed Records; being more
2-6 particularly described in metes and bounds as follows:
2-7 BEGINNING at the southwest corner of said Lot 36 and marking
2-8 the intersection of the east right-of-way line of East Jacquet
2-9 Drive (60 feet wide) with the north right-of-way line of Elm Street
2-10 (60 feet wide);
2-11 THENCE, North 02 25' 00" West, 455.00 feet along said east
2-12 right-of-way line of East Jacquet Drive to a 5/8-inch iron rod
2-13 found marking the northwest corner of aforementioned Lot 30 and
2-14 being the beginning of a tangent curve to the left;
2-15 THENCE, 42.36 feet along the arc of said curve, and east
2-16 right-of-way line of East Jacquet Drive to the left having a radius
2-17 of 55.00 feet, a central angle of 44 07' 41", a long chord bearing
2-18 North 24 28' 51" West, 41.32 feet to a 5/8-inch iron rod found
2-19 marking the most westerly corner of aforementioned Lot 29 for
2-20 corner;
2-21 THENCE, North 43 26' 19" East, 77.16 feet leaving said east
2-22 right-of-way line to a point for corner;
2-23 THENCE, South 02 24' 08" East, 547.02 feet along a fence
2-24 line to a point marking the intersection of said line with the
2-25 aforementioned north right-of-way line of Elm Street for corner;
2-26 THENCE, South 87 35' 00" West, 39.72 feet along said north
2-27 right-of-way line of Elm Street to the POINT OF BEGINNING,
3-1 CONTAINING 0.4890 acre of land in Harris County, Texas.
3-2 SECTION 4. EMERGENCY. The importance of this legislation
3-3 and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-4 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-5 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-6 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
3-7 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
3-8 passage, and it is so enacted.