1-1 By: Janek (Senate Sponsor - Brown) H.B. No. 1976
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 10, 1995;
1-3 May 11, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on State
1-4 Affairs; May 22, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 11, Nays 0; May 22, 1995, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the conveyance of certain state-owned real property in
1-9 Harris County to the City of Bellaire.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. AUTHORIZATION FOR CONVEYANCE. (a) The Texas
1-12 Department of Transportation shall convey without compensation, on
1-13 behalf of the state, all of the interest of the state in the real
1-14 property described by Section 3 of this Act and all improvements on
1-15 the property to the City of Bellaire.
1-16 (b) This conveyance is in recognition of the development of
1-17 the property described by Section 3 of this Act by the City of
1-18 Bellaire as a public park and the city's continued maintenance of
1-19 the property as a public park.
1-20 (c) Section 31.158, Natural Resources Code, and Chapter 99,
1-21 General Laws, Acts of the 42nd Legislature, Regular Session, 1931
1-22 (Article 6673a, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), do not apply to the
1-23 conveyance authorized by this section.
1-24 SECTION 2. REVERSION OF TITLE. If the City of Bellaire
1-25 ceases to use the real property described by Section 3 of this Act
1-26 as a public park, all right, title, and interest in the property
1-27 reverts to the state.
1-28 SECTION 3. PROPERTY DESCRIPTION. The real property
1-29 authorized to be conveyed under Section 1 of this Act is a 0.4890
1-30 acre (21,299 square feet) tract of land being a portion of Lots 29
1-31 through 36 in Post Oak Court Subdivision recorded in Volume 36,
1-32 Page 49 of the Harris County Map Records and described in deeds
1-33 recorded under Volume 3792, Page 440; Volume 3671, Page 13; Volume
1-34 3600, Page 693; Volume 3685, Page 425; Volume 3675, Page 498;
1-35 Volume 3956, Page 152; Volume 3733, Page 615 and Volume 3725, Page
1-36 635, respectively, of the Harris County Deed Records; being more
1-37 particularly described in metes and bounds as follows:
1-38 BEGINNING at the southwest corner of said Lot 36 and marking
1-39 the intersection of the east right-of-way line of East Jacquet
1-40 Drive (60 feet wide) with the north right-of-way line of Elm Street
1-41 (60 feet wide);
1-42 THENCE, North 02 25' 00" West, 455.00 feet along said east
1-43 right-of-way line of East Jacquet Drive to a 5/8-inch iron rod
1-44 found marking the northwest corner of aforementioned Lot 30 and
1-45 being the beginning of a tangent curve to the left;
1-46 THENCE, 42.36 feet along the arc of said curve, and east
1-47 right-of-way line of East Jacquet Drive to the left having a radius
1-48 of 55.00 feet, a central angle of 44 07' 41", a long chord bearing
1-49 North 24 28' 51" West, 41.32 feet to a 5/8-inch iron rod found
1-50 marking the most westerly corner of aforementioned Lot 29 for
1-51 corner;
1-52 THENCE, North 43 26' 19" East, 77.16 feet leaving said east
1-53 right-of-way line to a point for corner;
1-54 THENCE, South 02 24' 08" East, 547.02 feet along a fence
1-55 line to a point marking the intersection of said line with the
1-56 aforementioned north right-of-way line of Elm Street for corner;
1-57 THENCE, South 87 35' 00" West, 39.72 feet along said north
1-58 right-of-way line of Elm Street to the POINT OF BEGINNING,
1-59 CONTAINING 0.4890 acre of land in Harris County, Texas.
1-60 SECTION 4. EMERGENCY. The importance of this legislation
1-61 and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-62 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-63 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-64 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-65 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-66 passage, and it is so enacted.
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