By Ellis H.B. No. 266
77R2050 PAM-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the transfer of certain state property from the Texas
1-3 Department of Criminal Justice to the Board of Regents of the Texas
1-4 State University System.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. (a) Not later than January 31, 2002, the Texas
1-7 Department of Criminal Justice shall transfer to the Board of
1-8 Regents of the Texas State University System for use by Sam Houston
1-9 State University the real property described by Subsection (e) of
1-10 this section.
1-11 (b) The Texas Department of Criminal Justice shall transfer
1-12 the property by an appropriate instrument of transfer.
1-13 (c) The instrument of transfer must include a provision
1-14 that:
1-15 (1) requires Sam Houston State University to use the
1-16 property in a manner that primarily promotes a governmental
1-17 purpose; and
1-18 (2) indicates that ownership of the property will
1-19 automatically revert to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice if
1-20 Sam Houston State University fails to use the property in that
1-21 manner.
1-22 (d) The Texas Department of Criminal Justice shall retain
1-23 custody of the instrument of transfer after the instrument of
1-24 transfer is filed in the real property records of Walker County.
2-1 (e) The real property referred to in this section is
2-2 described as follows:
2-3 Being an 345.58 acre tract of land located in the John Porter
2-4 Survey, Abstract 38, Walker County, Texas, and being a portion of a
2-5 residue of 1664.85 acres of land conveyed in deed from Albert E.
2-6 Cunningham and wife, Julia S. Cunningham to the State of Texas for
2-7 the Texas Department of Corrections, dated November 10, 1959, and
2-8 recorded in the Deed Records of Walker County in Volume 165, Page
2-9 138; said 345.58 acre tract being more particularly described by
2-10 metes and bounds as follows:
2-11 BEGINNING at a concrete TxDOT monument found for the most westerly
2-12 cutback corner of the intersection of the northeasterly right of
2-13 way line of FM (Farm to Market) 980, based on a width of 80.00
2-14 feet, recorded in Volume 129, Page 236, of the Deed Records of
2-15 Walker County, and the northwesterly right of way line of SH (State
2-16 Highway) 19, based on a width of 230.00 feet, and having grid
2-17 coordinates of X= 3842823.28, Y= 10308432.06; all bearings and
2-18 coordinates are based on the Texas State Plane Coordinate System,
2-19 Central Zone, NAD 83, Adj. 1993. To convert to surface
2-20 coordinates, divide by a combined scale factor of 0.99988; NGS
2-21 Station BL 2006 bears South 3417'48" East, a grid distance of
2-22 5280.90 feet.
2-23 THENCE, North 4815'45" West, along the northeasterly right of way
2-24 line of FM 980, a distance of 1086.25 feet to a 5/8-inch iron rod
2-25 set for an angle point;
2-26 THENCE, North 4954'44" West, continuing along the northeasterly
2-27 right of way line of FM 980, a distance of 1312.47 feet to a
3-1 5/8-inch iron rod set for a point of curvature;
3-2 THENCE, in a northwesterly direction, continuing along the
3-3 northeasterly right of way line of FM 980, with a curve to the
3-4 left, having a central angle of 0255'23", a radius of 5769.58 feet,
3-5 an arc length of 294.34 feet, and a chord bearing of North 5122'25"
3-6 West, a distance of 294.31 feet to a 5/8-inch iron rod set for the
3-7 point of tangency;
3-8 THENCE, North 5250'07" West, continuing along the northeasterly
3-9 right of way line of FM 980, a distance of 630.14 feet to a
3-10 5/8-inch iron rod set for a point of curvature;
3-11 THENCE, in a northwesterly direction, continuing along the
3-12 northeasterly right of way line of FM 980, with a curve to the
3-13 left, having a central angle of 0637'26", a radius of 994.93 feet,
3-14 an arc length of 115.02 feet, and a chord bearing of North 5608'50"
3-15 West, a distance of 114.96 feet to a 5/8-inch iron rod set in the
3-16 southeast line of that certain tract of land as conveyed in deed to
3-17 Horace M. Reeves and Mary Frances Reeves, dated December 16, 1993,
3-18 and recorded in Volume 211, Page 629 of the Official Public Records
3-19 of Walker County;
3-20 THENCE, North 1438'33" West, along the easterly line of said Reeves
3-21 tract, a distance of 186.96 feet to a fence corner for the
3-22 northeast corner of said Reeves tract;
3-23 THENCE, North 6458'09" West, along the northerly line of said
3-24 Reeves tract and a fence line, a distance of 236.19 feet to a
3-25 3-inch iron pipe found in the southerly line of a residue of 100
3-26 acres of land conveyed in deed to Sam W. Robbins, dated August 30,
3-27 1947, and recorded in Volume 120, Page 310, of the Deed Records of
4-1 Walker County;
4-2 THENCE, North 42 10'24" East, along the southerly line of said
4-3 Robbins tract and a fence line, a distance of 2439.03 feet to a
4-4 2-inch iron pipe found for the southeast corner of a residue of 100
4-5 acres of land conveyed in deed to Phillip M. Campbell, et al, dated
4-6 May 9, 1985, and recorded in Volume 445, Page 408 of the Official
4-7 Public Records of Walker County;
4-8 THENCE, North 47 35'56" West, along the easterly line of said
4-9 Phillip M. Campbell, et al tract and a fence line, a distance of
4-10 3064.51 feet the Livingston Reservoir Pool Line, as described in
4-11 deed to the Trinity River Authority, dated August 26, 1969, and
4-12 recorded in Volume 223, Page 758 of the Deed Records of Walker
4-13 County:
4-14 THENCE, along the Livingston Reservoir Pool Line the following:
4-15 North 6930'00" East, 262.64 feet;
4-16 North 7856'00" East, 182.39 feet;
4-17 South 7051'00" East, 228.65 feet;
4-18 South 7007'00" East, 399.84 feet;
4-19 South 7751'00" East, 384.63 feet;
4-20 North 8406'00" East, 349.86 feet;
4-21 South 8101'00" East, 390.79 feet;
4-22 South 2242'00" East, 59.62 feet;
4-23 North 2227'00" East, 99.54 feet;
4-24 North 7549'00" East, 89.74 feet;
4-25 South 8631'00" East, 230.43 feet;
4-26 South 5329'00" West, 230.20 feet;
4-27 North 6712'00" East, 170.31 feet;
5-1 South 8414'00" East, 99.50 feet;
5-2 North 5043'00" East, 270.04 feet;
5-3 South 7913'00" East, 149.64 feet;
5-4 North 5958'00" East, 169.81 feet;
5-5 South 5159'00" East, 69.81 feet;
5-6 South 0200'00" East, 200.12 feet;
5-7 South 5910'00" East, 150.23 feet;
5-8 South 8101'00" East, 159.97 feet;
5-9 South 6631'00" East, 449.20 feet;
5-10 South 4804'00" West, 79.31 feet;
5-11 South 3420'00" East, 49.65 feet;
5-12 North 2751'00" East, 59.94 feet;
5-13 North 8743'00" East, 50.04 feet;
5-14 South 4752'00" West, 169.92 feet;
5-15 South 6202'00" East, 219.65 feet;
5-16 North 5421'00" East, 169.84 feet;
5-17 South 6330'00" East, 430.22 feet;
5-18 North 5050'00" East, 69.66 feet;
5-19 South 4833'00" East, 160.11 feet;
5-20 South 5547'00" West, 60.46 feet;
5-21 South 3829'00" East, 49.82 feet;
5-22 North 6602'00" East, 49.24 feet;
5-23 South 1813'00" East, 249.51 feet;
5-24 South 3652'00" West, 150.00 feet;
5-25 South 8343'00" West, 100.60 feet;
5-26 North 4921'00" West, 130.48 feet;
5-27 South 1034'00" East, 120.03 feet;
6-1 South 1018'00" West, 100.62 feet;
6-2 South 1654'00" East, 199.61 feet;
6-3 South 0929'00" East, 400.48 feet;
6-4 South 2431'00" West, 200.03 feet;
6-5 South 3704'00" West, 399.80 feet;
6-6 South 1128'00" East, 70.41 feet;
6-7 South 1953'00" West, 349.86 feet;
6-8 South 5034'00" East, 80.28 feet;
6-9 South 0204'00" West, 250.16 feet;
6-10 South 0506'00" West, 179.71 feet;
6-11 South 3652'00" West, 100.00 feet;
6-12 South 6603'00" West, 500.06 feet;
6-13 North 5358'00" West, 40.80 feet;
6-14 South 7232'00" West, 129.99 feet;
6-15 North 6224'00" West, 49.65 feet;
6-16 South 2837'00" West, 50.12 feet;
6-17 South 8634'00" West, 50.09 feet;
6-18 South 3124'00" West, 90.21 feet;
6-19 South 6923'00" West, 99.37 feet;
6-20 North 5308'00" West, 150.00 feet;
6-21 South 1537'00" West, 70.60 feet;
6-22 South 8412'00" West, 59.30 feet;
6-23 South 1047'00" West, 149.64 feet;
6-24 South 8502'00" West, 219.82 feet;
6-25 South 6812'00" East, 199.25 feet;
6-26 South 7439'00" West, 200.14 feet;
6-27 South 4808'00" East, 220.24 feet;
7-1 North 4516'00" East, 299.82 feet;
7-2 North 8317'00" East, 85.59 feet;
7-3 South 6107'00" East, 99.36 feet;
7-4 South 2804'00" East, 240.24 feet;
7-5 South 8309'00" East, 50.36 feet;
7-6 South 2448'00" East, 159.73 feet;
7-7 North 0731'00" East, 290.50 feet;
7-8 North 6355'00" East, 159.21 feet;
7-9 North 8743'00" East, 400.32 feet;
7-10 South 2953'00" East, 100.34 feet;
7-11 South 2608'00" West, 120.30 feet;
7-12 South 4829'00" West, 349.95 feet;
7-13 North 6733'00" West, 49.77 feet;
7-14 South 2244'00" East, 80.23 feet;
7-15 South 1850'00" West, 179.62 feet;
7-16 South 5104'00" East, 100.26 feet;
7-17 North 4530'00" East, 79.91 feet;
7-18 North 7018'00" East, 258.10 feet, to the northerly line of a
7-19 13.462 acre tract of land as described in deed conveyed to the
7-20 Trinity River Authority, dated May 20, 1972, and recorded in the
7-21 Deed Records of Walker County in Volume 247, Page 383;
7-22 THENCE, South 4348'39" West, along the northerly line of said
7-23 13.462 acre tract and a fence line, a distance of 1160.92 feet to a
7-24 fence corner found for the northwest corner of said 13.462 acre
7-25 tract;
7-26 THENCE, South 6455'27" East, along the westerly line of said 13.462
7-27 acre tract and a fence line, a distance of 611.66 feet to a
8-1 5/8-inch iron rod set in the northwesterly right of way line of SH
8-2 19;
8-3 THENCE, South 3006'27" West, along the northwesterly right of way
8-4 line of SH 19, a distance of 575.88 feet to a 5/8-inch iron rod set
8-5 for the most easterly cutback corner of the intersection with FM
8-6 980;
8-7 THENCE, South 6826'42" West, along said cutback corner, a distance
8-8 of 162.00 feet to the POINT OF BEGINNING and containing 345.58
8-9 acres of land.
8-10 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
8-11 a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
8-12 provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
8-13 Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
8-14 Act takes effect September 1, 2001.