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.
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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.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor