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. 2-33 * * * * *