By Lucio S.B. No. 1420
76R9243 T
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to authorizing the Board of Regents of The University of
1-3 Texas System to acquire by purchase, exchange, gift, or otherwise
1-4 certain properties to be used for campus expansion and university
1-5 purposes in The University of Texas System.
1-6 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-7 SECTION 1. The Board of Regents of The University of Texas
1-8 System is hereby authorized to acquire by purchase, exchange, gift,
1-9 or otherwise, for campus expansion and for other University
1-10 purposes, all or any part of the land described as: (a) A tract
1-11 of land containing 64.16 acres more or less, in the City of
1-12 Edinburg, Texas, being all of Lot 10, the West 20 acres of Lot 9,
1-13 and the East 361 feet of the South 659 feet of Lot 14, all in
1-14 Section 242, Texas-Mexican Railway Company Survey, per map recorded
1-15 in Volume 1, Page 12, Deed Records of said County, together with
1-16 all street, alleys, alleyways, railroads, thoroughfares, whether or
1-17 not vacated lying within or adjoining said 64.16 acre tract of
1-18 land, specifically including but not limited to all those portions
1-19 of Schunior, Garner and Chapin Streets, and Sugar Road.
1-20 (b) A tract of land containing 10.5 acres, more or less, out
1-21 of Lots 1 and 4 Black A, Section 242 as shown on Edinburg Original
1-22 Townsite Map, recorded in Volume 1, Page 3, Map Records of Hidalgo
1-23 County, Texas, said 10.5 acre tract of land being that certain
1-24 portion of land in said Lots 1 and 4 lying West of the centerline
2-1 of First Avenue together with all streets, alleys, alleyways,
2-2 railroads, thoroughfares, whether or not vacated lying within or
2-3 adjoining said 10.5 acre tract of land, specifically including but
2-4 not limited to all those portions of Schunior, Chavez, Cooper,
2-5 Smith, and Garner Street, and 1st Avenue.
2-6 (c) A tract of land containing 26.7 acres, more or less, in
2-7 the City of Edinburg, Texas, being Lots 5, 6, 7 and 8 of Block
2-8 Ninety Four (94), Lots 5, 6, 7 and 8 of block One Hundred and
2-9 Twenty Seven (127), Lots 5, 6, 7 and 8 of Block One Hundred and
2-10 Thirty Eight (138), Lots 5, 6, 7 and 8 of Block One Hundred and
2-11 Seventy One (171), Lots 5, 6, 7 and 8 of Block One Hundred and
2-12 Eighty Two (182), Lots 5, 6, 7 and 8 of Block Two Hundred and
2-13 Fifteen (215), Lots 5, 6, 7 and 8 if Block Two Hundred and Twenty
2-14 Six (226), all of Blocks One Hundred and Fifty Nine (159), One
2-15 Hundred and Seventy (170), One Hundred and Eighty Three (183), One
2-16 Hundred and Sixty Nine (169), and the North 280 feet of Block One
2-17 Hundred and Eighty Four (184), all in Edinburg Original Townsite
2-18 Map, recorded in Volume 1, Page 23, Map Records of Hidalgo County,
2-19 Texas; together with all streets, alleys, alleyways, railroads,
2-20 thoroughfares, whether or not vacated lying within or adjoining
2-21 said 10.5 acre tract of land, specifically including but not
2-22 limited to all those portions of Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth
2-23 Avenues, and Schunior, Van Week, Lovette, Peter, Loeb, Kuhn,
2-24 McIntyre and Harriman Streets, and the Southern Pacific Railroad.
2-25 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-26 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-27 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
3-3 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
3-4 passage, and it is so enacted.