By: Averitt S.B. No. 2228
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the transfer of certain state property from the Texas
  Department of Criminal Justice to Coryell County.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  (a)  Not later than November 1, 2009, the Texas
  Department of Criminal Justice shall transfer to Coryell County the
  real property described by Subsection (d) of this section.
         (b)  Coryell County shall use the property transferred under
  this Act only for a purpose that benefits the public interest of the
  state. If Coryell County no longer uses the property for a purpose
  that benefits the public interest of the state, ownership of the
  property automatically reverts to the Texas Department of Criminal
  Justice.
         (c)  The Texas Department of Criminal Justice shall transfer
  the property by an appropriate instrument of transfer. The
  instrument of transfer must:
               (1)  include a provision that:
                     (A)  requires Coryell County to use the property
  for a purpose that benefits the public interest of the state; and
                     (B)  indicates that ownership of the property
  automatically reverts to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice
  if Coryell County no longer uses the property for a purpose that
  benefits the public interest of the state; and
               (2)  describe the property to be transferred by metes
  and bounds.
         (d)  The real property to which Subsection (a) of this
  section refers is described as follows:
  Field Notes describing a 33.37-acre tract of land in the Henry
  Farley Survey, Abstract Number 352, Coryell County, Texas.  Also
  being a portion of a called 117.56-acre tract of land conveyed to
  Texas Department of Criminal Justice - Institutional Division
  (TDCJ), recorded in Volume 579, Page 387 in the Deed Records of
  Coryell County, Texas.
  Beginning at a 5/8" diameter iron pipe found, being the northeast
  corner of said TDCJ tract, the northwest corner of a called First
  Tract (135.41-acres) and in the south line of a called Second Tract
  (217-acres) described in a partition decree (Powell vs. Powell),
  recorded in Volume L, Page 76 in the Civil Minutes, District Court
  Records of Coryell County, Texas, for the northeast corner of the
  herein described tract of land;
  Thence S 24 degrees 20 minutes 00 seconds W - 982.89 feet (BEARING
  BASIS - Deed Call) with the east line of said TDCJ tract, the west
  line of said Powell First Tract, and generally following a wire
  fence to a railroad tie fence post found for an angle point in the
  herein described tract of land;
  Thence S 13 degrees 13 minutes 26 seconds W - 173.89 feet with the
  east line of said TDCJ tract, the west line of said Powell First
  Tract, and generally following a wire fence to a ½" diameter iron
  rod set with cap (LETH #3879), from which a 6" diameter cedar fence
  post found at the southeast corner of said TDCJ tract bears S 13
  degrees 13 minutes 26 seconds W - 1593.57 feet, for the southeast
  corner in the herein described tract of land;
  Thence N 67 degrees 05 minutes 00 seconds W - 1592.81 feet through
  said TDCJ tract to a ½" diameter iron rod set with cap (LETH #3879)
  in the west line of said TDCJ tract and in the east line of State
  Farm-To-Market Highway 929 (FM 929), for the southwest corner in
  the herein described tract of land;
  Thence N 18 degrees 24 minutes 39 seconds E - 55.04 feet with the
  west line of said TDCJ tract and the east line of said FM 929 to a ½
  " diameter iron rod set with cap (LETH #3879) at the beginning of
  a curve to the right for an angle point in the herein described
  tract of land;
  Thence with the west line of said TDCJ tract, the east line of said
  FM 929 and said curve to the right, with a length of 495.28 feet, a
  radius of 914.43 feet, and a chord of N 33 degrees 55 minutes 39
  seconds E, a distance of 489.25 feet to a ½" diameter iron rod set
  with cap (LETH #3879) at the point of tangency in the east line of
  said FM 929 for an angle point in the herein described tract of
  land;
  Thence N 49 degrees 26 minutes 39 seconds E - 306.77 feet with the
  west line of said TDCJ tract and the east line of said FM 929 to a ½
  " diameter iron rod set with cap (LETH #3879) at the southwest
  corner of a called Tract Two (1.99-acres) described in an Affidavit
  of Heirship to Martha Wingate, recorded under Instrument Number
  140336 in the Deed Records of Coryell County, Texas, for the
  northwest corner in the herein described tract of land;
  Thence S 81 degrees 16 minutes 39 seconds E - 1404.58 feetwith the
  north line of said TDCJ tract, the south line of said Wingate Tract
  Two, the south line of a called Tract One described in said Wingate
  Affidavit of Heirship, the south line of a called 9.718-acre tract
  conveyed to Martha Wingate, recorded under Instrument Number 130580
  in the Deed Records of Coryell County, Texas, and the south line of
  said Powell Second Tract to the POINT OF BEGINNING and containing
  33.37-acres of land.
         (e)  The Texas Department of Criminal Justice shall grant to
  Coryell County certain utility easements to the real property
  described in Subsection (d) of this section. Utility easements
  shall be mutually beneficial and agreed upon by the Texas
  Department of Criminal Justice and Coryell County.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
  a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
  provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
  Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
  Act takes effect September 1, 2009.