1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the transfer of certain state property from the Texas
 1-3     Department of Criminal Justice to Karnes County.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  (a)  Not later than October 31, 1999, the Texas
 1-6     Department of Criminal Justice shall transfer to Karnes County, for
 1-7     consideration to which the parties mutually agree, the real
 1-8     property described by Subsection (d) of this section.
 1-9           (b)  Consideration for the transfer authorized by Subsection
1-10     (a)  of this section may be in the form of an agreement between the
1-11     parties that requires Karnes County to use the property for a
1-12     purpose that benefits the public interest of the state.  If the
1-13     consideration for the transfer is in the form of an agreement
1-14     described by this subsection:
1-15                 (1)  Karnes County may use the property transferred
1-16     under this Act only for a purpose that benefits the public interest
1-17     of the state; and
1-18                 (2)  ownership of the property automatically reverts to
1-19     the Texas Department of Criminal Justice if Karnes County no longer
1-20     uses the property for a purpose that benefits the public interest
1-21     of the state.
1-22           (c)  The Texas Department of Criminal Justice shall transfer
1-23     the property by an appropriate instrument of transfer.  If the
1-24     consideration for the transfer is in the form of an agreement
 2-1     described by Subsection (b) of this section, the instrument of
 2-2     transfer must include a provision that:
 2-3                 (1)  requires Karnes County to use the property for a
 2-4     purpose that benefits the public interest of the state; and
 2-5                 (2)  indicates that ownership of the property
 2-6     automatically reverts to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice
 2-7     if Karnes County no longer uses the property for a purpose that
 2-8     benefits the public interest of the state.
 2-9           (d)  The real property to which Subsection (a)  of this
2-10     section refers is described as follows:
2-11     Being 0.312 acres of land, a part of the Jose Antonio Leal Survey,
2-12     Abstract No. 184, lying and being situated within the corporate
2-13     limits of the City of Karnes City, Texas. The said 0.312 acre tract
2-14     also being all of Lots Nos. 13 & 14 and the South 16' of Lot No. 12
2-15     (FIRST TRACT) and all of Lots Nos. 15 & 16 (SECOND TRACT), all
2-16     being in Block No. 21 of the City of Karnes City, Texas, and also
2-17     being described in a GIFT DEED from Victor F. Sickenius, et al, to
2-18     City of Karnes City, dated November 20, 1990, and recorded in
2-19     Volume 610, Pages 643-646, of the Deed Records of Karnes County,
2-20     Texas.
2-21     The said 0.312 acre tract being more particularly described by
2-22     metes and bounds as follows:
2-23     BEGINNING at a 3/4" iron pipe found set in the East boundary of
2-24     said Block No.  21; the same being the West boundary of North
2-25     Market Street, for the occupied Southeast corner of Lot No. 16 and
2-26     the occupied Southeast corner of said City of Karnes City property;
2-27     the same being the Southeast corner of this 0.312 acre tract and
 3-1     being S. 03 degrees W.-153' from the Northeast corner of said Block
 3-2     No. 21, at a point of intersection with the South boundary of East
 3-3     Buchel Street and the West boundary of said North Market Street.
 3-4     THENCE: N. 87 degrees W.-115.0', to a 3/4" iron pipe found set in
 3-5     the East boundary of a 20' alley, for the occupied Southwest corner
 3-6     of said Lot No. 16 and the occupied Southwest corner of said City
 3-7     of Karnes City property; the same being the Southwest corner of
 3-8     this 0.312 acre tract.
 3-9     THENCE: N. 03 degrees E. along the East boundary of said 20' alley,
3-10     a distance of 118.0' to a 1/2" iron pipe found set for the occupied
3-11     Northwest corner of said City of Karnes City property and the
3-12     Northwest corner of this 0.312 acre tract, and being S. 03 degrees
3-13     W.-35' from an iron pipe found set for the occupied Northwest
3-14     corner of Lot No. 11, at a point of intersection with the South
3-15     boundary of said East Buchel Street and the East boundary of said
3-16     20' alley.
3-17     THENCE: S. 87 degrees E.-115.0', to a point in the East boundary of
3-18     said Block No. 21; the same being the West boundary of said North
3-19     Market Street, for the Northeast corner of said City of Karnes City
3-20     property and the Northeast corner of this 0.312 acre tract.
3-21     THENCE: S. 03 degrees W. along the East boundary of said Block No.
3-22     21 and the West boundary of said North Market Street, a distance of
3-23     118.0' to the point of BEGINNING and CONTAINING 0.312 acres of
3-24     land.
3-25     Surveyed on the ground on March 24, 1994, under the supervision of
3-26     Syl.  Dworaczyk, Jr., Registered Professional Land Surveyor No.
3-27     1272. (CHAS.  KLUMPP, JR. & CO. - Karnes City, Texas.)
 4-1           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
 4-2     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 4-3     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 4-4     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 4-5     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
 4-6     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 4-7     passage, and it is so enacted.
         _______________________________     _______________________________
             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 1363 was passed by the House on April
         16, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 136, Nays 0, 2 present, not
         voting.
                                             _______________________________
                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 1363 was passed by the Senate on May
         17, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 0.
                                             _______________________________
                                                 Secretary of the Senate
         APPROVED:  _____________________
                            Date
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                          Governor