1-1     By:  Hawley (Senate Sponsor - Armbrister)             H.B. No. 1363
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 19, 1999;
 1-3     April 20, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
 1-4     Criminal Justice; May 10, 1999, reported favorably by the following
 1-5     vote:  Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 10, 1999, 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 Karnes County.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  (a)  Not later than October 31, 1999, the Texas
1-12     Department of Criminal Justice shall transfer to Karnes County, for
1-13     consideration to which the parties mutually agree, the real
1-14     property described by Subsection (d) of this section.
1-15           (b)  Consideration for the transfer authorized by Subsection
1-16     (a)  of this section may be in the form of an agreement between the
1-17     parties that requires Karnes County to use the property for a
1-18     purpose that benefits the public interest of the state.  If the
1-19     consideration for the transfer is in the form of an agreement
1-20     described by this subsection:
1-21                 (1)  Karnes County may use the property transferred
1-22     under this Act only for a purpose that benefits the public interest
1-23     of the state; and
1-24                 (2)  ownership of the property automatically reverts to
1-25     the Texas Department of Criminal Justice if Karnes County no longer
1-26     uses the property for a purpose that benefits the public interest
1-27     of the state.
1-28           (c)  The Texas Department of Criminal Justice shall transfer
1-29     the property by an appropriate instrument of transfer.  If the
1-30     consideration for the transfer is in the form of an agreement
1-31     described by Subsection (b) of this section, the instrument of
1-32     transfer must include a provision that:
1-33                 (1)  requires Karnes County to use the property for a
1-34     purpose that benefits the public interest of the state; and
1-35                 (2)  indicates that ownership of the property
1-36     automatically reverts to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice
1-37     if Karnes County no longer uses the property for a purpose that
1-38     benefits the public interest of the state.
1-39           (d)  The real property to which Subsection (a)  of this
1-40     section refers is described as follows:
1-41     Being 0.312 acres of land, a part of the Jose Antonio Leal Survey,
1-42     Abstract No. 184, lying and being situated within the corporate
1-43     limits of the City of Karnes City, Texas. The said 0.312 acre tract
1-44     also being all of Lots Nos. 13 & 14 and the South 16' of Lot No. 12
1-45     (FIRST TRACT) and all of Lots Nos. 15 & 16 (SECOND TRACT), all
1-46     being in Block No. 21 of the City of Karnes City, Texas, and also
1-47     being described in a GIFT DEED from Victor F. Sickenius, et al, to
1-48     City of Karnes City, dated November 20, 1990, and recorded in
1-49     Volume 610, Pages 643-646, of the Deed Records of Karnes County,
1-50     Texas.
1-51     The said 0.312 acre tract being more particularly described by
1-52     metes and bounds as follows:
1-53     BEGINNING at a 3/4" iron pipe found set in the East boundary of
1-54     said Block No.  21; the same being the West boundary of North
1-55     Market Street, for the occupied Southeast corner of Lot No. 16 and
1-56     the occupied Southeast corner of said City of Karnes City property;
1-57     the same being the Southeast corner of this 0.312 acre tract and
1-58     being S. 03 degrees W.-153' from the Northeast corner of said Block
1-59     No. 21, at a point of intersection with the South boundary of East
1-60     Buchel Street and the West boundary of said North Market Street.
1-61     THENCE: N. 87 degrees W.-115.0', to a 3/4" iron pipe found set in
1-62     the East boundary of a 20' alley, for the occupied Southwest corner
1-63     of said Lot No. 16 and the occupied Southwest corner of said City
1-64     of Karnes City property; the same being the Southwest corner of
 2-1     this 0.312 acre tract.
 2-2     THENCE: N. 03 degrees E. along the East boundary of said 20' alley,
 2-3     a distance of 118.0' to a 1/2" iron pipe found set for the occupied
 2-4     Northwest corner of said City of Karnes City property and the
 2-5     Northwest corner of this 0.312 acre tract, and being S. 03 degrees
 2-6     W.-35' from an iron pipe found set for the occupied Northwest
 2-7     corner of Lot No. 11, at a point of intersection with the South
 2-8     boundary of said East Buchel Street and the East boundary of said
 2-9     20' alley.
2-10     THENCE: S. 87 degrees E.-115.0', to a point in the East boundary of
2-11     said Block No. 21; the same being the West boundary of said North
2-12     Market Street, for the Northeast corner of said City of Karnes City
2-13     property and the Northeast corner of this 0.312 acre tract.
2-14     THENCE: S. 03 degrees W. along the East boundary of said Block No.
2-15     21 and the West boundary of said North Market Street, a distance of
2-16     118.0' to the point of BEGINNING and CONTAINING 0.312 acres of
2-17     land.
2-18     Surveyed on the ground on March 24, 1994, under the supervision of
2-19     Syl.  Dworaczyk, Jr., Registered Professional Land Surveyor No.
2-20     1272. (CHAS.  KLUMPP, JR. & CO. - Karnes City, Texas.)
2-21           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-22     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-23     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-24     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-25     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-26     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-27     passage, and it is so enacted.
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