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By Price H.B. No. 3016
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the transfer of certain state property from the Texas
1-3 Department of Criminal Justice to Jefferson County.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. (a) The Texas Department of Criminal Justice
1-6 shall donate and transfer to Jefferson County the real property
1-7 described by Subsection (d) of this section.
1-8 (b) The Texas Department of Criminal Justice shall transfer
1-9 the property by an appropriate instrument of transfer. The
1-10 instrument must include a provision that:
1-11 (1) requires Jefferson County to use the property only
1-12 for governmental purposes; and
1-13 (2) indicates that ownership of the property will
1-14 automatically revert to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice if
1-15 Jefferson County uses the property for any purpose other than a
1-16 governmental purpose.
1-17 (c) The Texas Department of Criminal Justice shall retain
1-18 custody of the instrument of transfer after its filing.
1-19 (d) The real property referred to in Subsection (a) of this
1-20 section is described as follows:
1-21 Being a tract or parcel containing 72.96 acres of land out of and a
1-22 part of the Pelham Humphries Survey, Abstract No. 32, also out of
1-23 and a part of that certain 689.690 acre tract as described in a
1-24 Special Warranty Deed from Jefferson County, Texas to the Texas
2-1 Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division and recorded
2-2 in Film Code 102-98-2207 and being more particularly described by
2-3 metes and bounds as follows; Commencing at a concrete monument
2-4 found at the intersection of the Southerly line of a Gulf States
2-5 Utilities Company Fee Strip (198 feet wide) as recorded in Volume
2-6 1586, Page 196, Deed Records of Jefferson County, Texas and the
2-7 Westerly right-of-way line of U.S. Highway 69, 96, and 287 (338
2-8 feet wide);
2-9 Thence along said Westerly line North 23 37'09" West for a
2-10 distance of 216.64' to an iron rod marking the Southeast corner of
2-11 Jefferson County 250 acre remainder of a 1039.008 acre tract of
2-12 land in the T. & N.O.R.R. Survey, Section 1, Abstract NO. 257, said
2-13 250 acre tract having been conveyed to the County of Jefferson by
2-14 the McFaddin Trust by Special Warranty Deed dated January 5, 1990
2-15 and recorded in File Code 102-98-2125 of the Deed Records of
2-16 Jefferson County, Texas;
2-17 Thence North 23 57'31" West along the Westerly right-of-way of
2-18 U.S. Highway 69, 96, and 287 and the Easterly line of said 250 acre
2-19 tract, a distance of 1098.15' to a 5/8" iron rod marking the
2-20 Southeast corner of a 50.2518 acre tract of land conveyed to the
2-21 Texas Youth Commission by Jefferson County, Texas and recorded in
2-22 Film Code 104-23-0304, Deed Records of Jefferson County, Texas;
2-23 Thence North 23 57'31" West along said Westerly right-of-way and
2-24 the Easterly line of the Texas Youth Commission 50.2518 acre tract,
2-25 a distance of 1602.99' to a 3.25" aluminum disk set for the most
2-26 Southeasterly right-of-way line of F.M. 3514 and the Northeasterly
2-27 corner of the Texas Youth Commission tract;
2-28 Thence continuing North 23 57'31" West along the Westerly
2-29 right-of-way line of U.S. Highway 69, 96, and 287 and the Easterly
2-30 line right-of-way line of F.M. 3514 a distance of 2477.99 to a
3-1 3.25" aluminum disk set for the most Northeasterly corner of F.M.
3-2 3514;
3-3 Thence continuing North 23 57'31" West along the Westerly
3-4 right-of-way line of U.S. Highway 69, 96, and 287 and the Easterly
3-5 line of the 689 acre Texas Department of Criminal Justice Tract a
3-6 distance of 684.78' to a 5/8" iron rod said point being 6,085.92'
3-7 form the point of commencement and the Point of Beginning of the
3-8 herein described tract;
3-9 Thence North 86 03'03"W 3920.10' to 5/8" iron rod in the North
3-10 line of the McFaddin Canal No. 1, said point being South 36 00'14"
3-11 West, a distance of 1432.68' from a Yount Lee Monument, said iron
3-12 rod also being the most Southwesterly corner of the Jefferson
3-13 County 69.101 acre Correctional Facility Tract out of a1039.008
3-14 acre tract of land in the Pelham Humphries Survey, Abstract No. 32,
3-15 said 69.101 acre tract having been conveyed to the County of
3-16 Jefferson by McFaddin Trust by Special Warranty Deed dated January
3-17 5, 1990 and recorded in Film Code 102-98-2125 of the Deed Records
3-18 of Jefferson County, Texas;
3-19 Thence North 66 02'29" East along the South line of said 69,101
3-20 acre tract and the North line of the herein described 72.964 acre
3-21 tract a distance of 3646.09' to a 5/8" iron rod in the Westerly
3-22 right-of-way line of U.S. Highway 69, 96, and 287, said 5/8" iron
3-23 rod being the Northeasterly corner of the herein described tract
3-24 and the Southeasterly corner of the Jefferson County 69.101 acre
3-25 Correctional Facility Site;
3-26 Thence South 23 57'37" East along the Westerly right-of-way line
3-27 of U.S. Highway 69, 96, and 287, and the Easterly line of the
3-28 herein described 72.964 acre tract a distance of 1835.00' to THE
3-29 PLACE OF BEGINNING and containing 72.964 acres, more or less.
3-30 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
4-1 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
4-2 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
4-3 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
4-4 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
4-5 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
4-6 passage, and it is so enacted.