1-1     By:  Price, Stiles (Senate Sponsor - Galloway)        H.B. No. 3016

 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 5, 1997;

 1-3     May 6, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on State

 1-4     Affairs; May 18, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote:

 1-5     Yeas 13, Nays 0; May 18, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to the transfer of certain state property from the Texas

 1-9     Department of Criminal Justice to Jefferson County.

1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-11           SECTION 1.  (a)  The Texas Department of Criminal Justice

1-12     shall donate and transfer to Jefferson County the real property

1-13     described by Subsection (d) of this section.

1-14           (b)  The Texas Department of Criminal Justice shall transfer

1-15     the property by an appropriate instrument of transfer.  The

1-16     instrument must include a provision that:

1-17                 (1)  requires Jefferson County to use the property only

1-18     for governmental purposes; and

1-19                 (2)  indicates that ownership of the property will

1-20     automatically revert to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice if

1-21     Jefferson County uses the property for any purpose other than a

1-22     governmental purpose.

1-23           (c)  The Texas Department of Criminal Justice shall retain

1-24     custody of the instrument of transfer after its filing.

1-25           (d)  The real property referred to in Subsection (a) of this

1-26     section is described as follows:

1-27     Being a tract or parcel containing 72.96 acres of land out of and a

1-28     part of the Pelham Humphries Survey, Abstract No. 32, also out of

1-29     and a part of that certain 689.690 acre tract as described in a

1-30     Special Warranty Deed from Jefferson County, Texas to the Texas

1-31     Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division and recorded

1-32     in Film Code 102-98-2207 and being more particularly described by

1-33     metes and bounds as follows; Commencing at a concrete monument

1-34     found at the intersection of the Southerly line of a Gulf States

1-35     Utilities Company Fee Strip (198 feet wide) as recorded in Volume

1-36     1586, Page 196, Deed Records of Jefferson County, Texas and the

1-37     Westerly right-of-way line of U.S. Highway 69, 96, and 287 (338

1-38     feet wide);

1-39     Thence along said Westerly line North 23 37'09" West for a distance

1-40     of 216.64' to an iron rod marking the Southeast corner of Jefferson

1-41     County 250 acre remainder of a 1039.008 acre tract of land in the

1-42     T. & N.O.R.R. Survey, Section 1, Abstract NO. 257, said 250 acre

1-43     tract having been conveyed to the County of Jefferson by the

1-44     McFaddin Trust by Special Warranty Deed dated January 5, 1990 and

1-45     recorded in File Code 102-98-2125 of the Deed Records of Jefferson

1-46     County, Texas;

1-47     Thence North 23 57'31" West along the Westerly right-of-way of U.S.

1-48     Highway 69, 96, and 287 and the Easterly line of said 250 acre

1-49     tract, a distance of 1098.15' to a 5/8" iron rod marking the

1-50     Southeast corner of a 50.2518 acre tract of land conveyed to the

1-51     Texas Youth Commission by Jefferson County, Texas and recorded in

1-52     Film Code 104-23-0304, Deed Records of Jefferson County, Texas;

1-53     Thence North 23 57'31" West along said Westerly right-of-way and

1-54     the Easterly line of the Texas Youth Commission 50.2518 acre tract,

1-55     a distance of 1602.99' to a 3.25" aluminum disk set for the most

1-56     Southeasterly right-of-way line of F.M. 3514 and the Northeasterly

1-57     corner of the Texas Youth Commission tract;

1-58     Thence continuing North 23 57'31" West along the Westerly

1-59     right-of-way line of U.S. Highway 69, 96, and 287 and the Easterly

1-60     line right-of-way line of F.M. 3514 a distance of 2477.99 to a

1-61     3.25" aluminum disk set for the most Northeasterly corner of F.M.

1-62     3514;

1-63     Thence continuing North 23 57'31" West along the Westerly

1-64     right-of-way line of U.S. Highway 69, 96, and 287 and the Easterly

 2-1     line of the 689 acre Texas Department of Criminal Justice Tract a

 2-2     distance of 684.78' to a 5/8" iron rod said point being 6,085.92'

 2-3     form the point of commencement and the Point of Beginning of the

 2-4     herein described tract;

 2-5     Thence North 86 03'03"W 3920.10' to 5/8" iron rod in the North line

 2-6     of the McFaddin Canal No. 1, said point being South 36 00'14" West,

 2-7     a distance of 1432.68' from a Yount Lee Monument, said iron rod

 2-8     also being the most Southwesterly corner of the Jefferson County

 2-9     69.101 acre Correctional Facility Tract out of a1039.008 acre tract

2-10     of land in the Pelham Humphries Survey, Abstract No. 32, said

2-11     69.101 acre tract having been conveyed to the County of Jefferson

2-12     by McFaddin Trust by Special Warranty Deed dated January 5, 1990

2-13     and recorded in Film Code 102-98-2125 of the Deed Records of

2-14     Jefferson County, Texas;

2-15     Thence North 66 02'29" East along the South line of said 69,101

2-16     acre tract and the North line of the herein described 72.964 acre

2-17     tract a distance of 3646.09' to a 5/8" iron rod in the Westerly

2-18     right-of-way line of U.S. Highway 69, 96, and 287, said 5/8" iron

2-19     rod being the Northeasterly corner of the herein described tract

2-20     and the Southeasterly corner of the Jefferson County 69.101 acre

2-21     Correctional Facility Site;

2-22     Thence South 23 57'37" East along the Westerly right-of-way line of

2-23     U.S.  Highway 69, 96, and 287, and the Easterly line of the herein

2-24     described 72.964 acre tract a distance of 1835.00' to THE PLACE OF

2-25     BEGINNING and containing 72.964 acres, more or less.

2-26           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

2-27     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

2-28     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

2-29     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

2-30     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

2-31     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

2-32     passage, and it is so enacted.

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