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By Hinojosa H.B. No. 1739
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the transfer of certain state property from the Texas
1-3 National Guard Armory Board to certain municipalities.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. (a) The Texas National Guard Armory Board shall
1-6 donate and transfer to the City of Donna the real property
1-7 described by Subsection (d) of this section if:
1-8 (1) the property is no longer used by the Texas
1-9 National Guard Armory Board as an armory;
1-10 (2) the property is fully paid for and free of liens;
1-11 and
1-12 (3) all obligations incurred in connection with the
1-13 acquisition and construction of the property have been fully paid.
1-14 (b) The Texas National Guard Armory Board shall transfer the
1-15 property by an appropriate instrument of transfer. The instrument
1-16 must include a provision that requires the City of Donna to use the
1-17 property only for governmental or public purposes.
1-18 (c) The Texas National Guard Armory Board and the City of
1-19 Donna shall retain custody of the instrument of transfer after its
1-20 filing.
1-21 (d) The real property referred to in Subsection (a) of this
1-22 section is described as follows:
1-23 Being Lots Eight (8) to Twenty-One (21), inclusive, and Lots
1-24 Thirty-five (35) to Forty (40), inclusive, out of the La Colonial
2-1 Subdivision in Donna, Hidalgo County, Texas, said Subdivision being
2-2 a Re-subdivision of Lots One (1) and Two (2), Block Eighty-One (81)
2-3 of the Lott, Town and Improvement Company's Subdivision of lands in
2-4 Hidalgo County, Texas, according to the maps and plats of said
2-5 subdivisions of record in the Office of the County Clerk of Hidalgo
2-6 County, Texas, to which reference is here made for all purposes;
2-7 SAVE AND EXCEPT all of the Oil, Gas, and other minerals in and
2-8 under, and that may be produced from said property, same being
2-9 expressly reserved to the City of Donna, Texas.
2-10 SECTION 2. (a) The Texas National Guard Armory Board shall
2-11 donate and transfer to the City of Edinburg the real property
2-12 described by Subsection (d) of this section if:
2-13 (1) the property is no longer used by the Texas
2-14 National Guard Armory Board as an armory;
2-15 (2) the property is fully paid for and free of liens;
2-16 and
2-17 (3) all obligations incurred in connection with the
2-18 acquisition and construction of the property have been fully paid.
2-19 (b) The Texas National Guard Armory Board shall transfer the
2-20 property by an appropriate instrument of transfer. The instrument
2-21 must include a provision that requires the City of Edinburg to use
2-22 the property only for governmental or public purposes.
2-23 (c) The Texas National Guard Armory Board and the City of
2-24 Edinburg shall retain custody of the instrument of transfer after
2-25 its filing.
2-26 (d) The real property referred to in Subsection (a) of this
2-27 section is described as follows:
2-28 A tract of land containing 3.42 acres, more or less, out of Lot No.
2-29 Ten (10) in Section No. Two Hundred Seventy-One (271) of the
2-30 Texas-Mexican Railway Company's Surveys in Hidalgo County, Texas,
3-1 according to the map or plat showing the subdivision of said
3-2 section along with other sections appearing of record in Volume 24,
3-3 Page 168 of the Deed Records of Hidalgo County, Texas, said tract
3-4 being more particularly described by metes and bounds as follows:
3-5 Beginning at a point on the West boundary line of said Lot No. Ten
3-6 (10), Section No. Two Hundred Seventy-One (271), 603.8 feet North
3-7 of the Southwest corner of said Lot; Thence Easterly on a line
3-8 parallel to the South boundary line of said Lot No. 10 a distance
3-9 of 307.86 feet to a point for the Southeast corner of this tract;
3-10 Thence Northerly on a line parallel to the West boundary line of
3-11 said Lot No. 10 a distance of 650.2 feet to a point, which point is
3-12 66 feet South of the North boundary line of said Lot No. 10 and
3-13 also 13 feet South of the South concrete edge of a concrete-lined
3-14 canal; Thence Westerly on a line parallel to the North boundary
3-15 line of said Lot No. 10 and said concrete canal a distance of 132
3-16 feet to a point; Thence Southerly and Westerly a distance of 141.39
3-17 feet along a curved line parallel to and 13 feet distant from said
3-18 concrete canal to a point; Thence Southerly on a line parallel to
3-19 the West boundary line of said Lot No. 10 and concrete canal a
3-20 distance of 391 feet to a point; Thence Westerly on a line parallel
3-21 to the North boundary line of said Lot No. 10 a distance of 36 feet
3-22 to a point; Thence Southerly on a line parallel to the West
3-23 boundary line of said Lot No. 10 a distance of 160 feet to a
3-24 point; Thence Westerly on a line parallel to the North boundary
3-25 line of said Lot No. 10 a distance of 50 feet to a point on the
3-26 West boundary line of said Lot No. 10; Thence Southerly along the
3-27 West boundary line of said Lot No. 10 a distance of 10 feet to the
3-28 point of beginning, containing, by the above metes and bounds, 3.42
3-29 acres of land, more or less.
3-30 SECTION 3. (a) The Texas National Guard Armory Board shall
4-1 donate and transfer to the City of Pharr the real property
4-2 described by Subsection (d) of this section if:
4-3 (1) the property is no longer used by the Texas
4-4 National Guard Armory Board as an armory;
4-5 (2) the property is fully paid for and free of liens;
4-6 and
4-7 (3) all obligations incurred in connection with the
4-8 acquisition and construction of the property have been fully paid.
4-9 (b) The Texas National Guard Armory Board shall transfer the
4-10 property by an appropriate instrument of transfer. The instrument
4-11 must include a provision requires the City of Pharr to use the
4-12 property only for governmental or public purposes.
4-13 (c) The Texas National Guard Armory Board and the City of
4-14 Pharr shall retain custody of the instrument of transfer after its
4-15 filing.
4-16 (d) The real property referred to in Subsection (a) of this
4-17 section is described as follows:
4-18 Three (3) acres of land in the South part of Lot Number 182 of the
4-19 Kelly-Pharr Subdivision of Porciones 69-70, Hidalgo County, Texas,
4-20 according to the map of said subdivision, recorded in Volume "3",
4-21 pages 133-134, of the Deed Records of said county, described by
4-22 metes and bounds as follows, to wit:
4-23 Beginning in the South line of said Lot No. 182 at a point N 81
4-24 Beginning in the South line of said Lot No. 182 at a point N 81
4-25 35' W 630 feet from the Southeast corner of said lot, for the
4-26 Southwest corner hereof; thence S 81 35' E 300 feet to a point in
4-27 said south line for the Southeast corner hereof; thence N 8 25' E
4-28 parallel with the East line of said lot, 435.6 feet to a point for
4-29 the Northeast corner hereof; thence N 81 35' W, parallel with the
4-30 South line of said lot, 300 feet to a point for the Northwest
5-1 corner hereof; Thence S 8 25' W, parallel with the East line of
5-2 said lot, 435.6 feet to the place and point of beginning,-
5-3 containing three (3) acres, EXCEPTING from this conveyance however,
5-4 and not conveyed hereby, all of the oil, gas and other minerals in,
5-5 under and that may be produced from said described three acres.
5-6 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
5-7 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
5-8 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
5-9 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
5-10 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
5-11 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
5-12 passage, and it is so enacted.