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.
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