Bill not drafted by TLC or Senate E&E.

      Line and page numbers may not match official copy.

      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.