1-1 By: Ogden S.B. No. 463 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 10, 1999; February 15, 1999, 1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources; 1-4 March 4, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 6, 1-5 Nays 0; March 4, 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 Walker County. 1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-11 SECTION 1. (a) Not later than January 31, 2000, the Texas 1-12 Department of Criminal Justice shall transfer to Walker County the 1-13 real property described by Subsection (e) of this section. 1-14 (b) Walker County may use the property transferred under 1-15 this Act only for a purpose that benefits the public interest of 1-16 the state. If Walker County no longer uses the property for a 1-17 purpose that benefits the public interest of the state, Walker 1-18 County shall sell the property for fair market value under the 1-19 procedures provided by Section 272.001, Local Government Code, and 1-20 forward the proceeds of the sale to the Texas Department of 1-21 Criminal Justice. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice shall 1-22 deposit proceeds received from the sale of the property as provided 1-23 by this subsection in the Texas capital trust fund. 1-24 (c) The Texas Department of Criminal Justice shall transfer 1-25 the property by an appropriate instrument of transfer. The 1-26 instrument of transfer must include a provision that: 1-27 (1) requires Walker County to use the property only 1-28 for a purpose that benefits the public interest of the state; and 1-29 (2) requires Walker County to sell the property and 1-30 forward the proceeds of the sale to the Texas Department of 1-31 Criminal Justice as provided by Subsection (b) of this section if 1-32 Walker County no longer uses the property for a purpose that 1-33 benefits the public interest of the state. 1-34 (d) The Texas Department of Criminal Justice shall retain 1-35 custody of the instrument of transfer after the instrument of 1-36 transfer is filed in the real property records of Walker County. 1-37 (e) The real property referred to in this section is 1-38 described as follows: 1-39 The west 120 feet of Lot No. 25, Block 8, and south 18 feet of the 1-40 west 120 feet of Lot No. 26, Block No. 8, City of Huntsville, 1-41 County of Walker, State of Texas, more particularly described as 1-42 follows: 1-43 BEGINNING AT THE northeast corner of the intersection of 11th 1-44 Street (formerly Cedar Street) and Avenue K (formerly Main Street); 1-45 THENCE in an eastwardly direction along the north line of 11th 1-46 Street and south line of Lot No. 25, a distance of 120 feet more or 1-47 less to a point; 1-48 THENCE in a northern direction and parallel to the east line of 1-49 Avenue K, a distance of 100 feet more or less to the south line of 1-50 Lot 26, Block 8; 1-51 THENCE continue north parallel to the east line of Avenue K, a 1-52 distance of 18 feet more or less to a point; 1-53 THENCE in a westerly direction and parallel to the north line of 1-54 11th Street, a distance of 120 feet more or less to a point on the 1-55 east line of Avenue K; 1-56 THENCE in a southern direction along the east line of Avenue K and 1-57 west line of Lot 26, Block 8, a distance of 18 feet more or less to 1-58 a point or corner between Lot 25 and Lot 26, Block 8; 1-59 THENCE continue in a southerly direction along the east line of 1-60 Avenue K and west line of Lot 25, Block 8, a distance of 100 feet 1-61 more or less to the POINT OF BEGINNING; containing in aggregate 1-62 14,400 square feet more or less and further identified as 1036 11th 1-63 Street, Huntsville, Texas. 1-64 The above described property was conveyed to the United States of 2-1 America by deeds recorded in Deed Book 33, page 535, July 24, 1911; 2-2 Deed Book 33, page 536, July 24, 1911; Book 33, page 537, July 24, 2-3 1911; and Deed Book 33, page 538, July 25, 1911; and Deed Book 33, 2-4 page 539, July 25, 1911; and Deed of Correction-Book 34, pages 83 2-5 and 84, of the Records of the County of Walker, State of Texas. 2-6 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-7 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-8 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-9 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-10 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-11 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-12 passage, and it is so enacted. 2-13 * * * * *