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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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AN ACT
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relating to the transfer of certain state property from the Texas |
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Department of Transportation to the Parks and Wildlife Department. |
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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SECTION 1. (a) Not later than December 31, 2011, the Texas |
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Department of Transportation shall transfer to the Parks and |
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Wildlife Department the real property described by Subsection (d) |
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of this section. |
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(b) The consideration for the transfer authorized by |
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Subsection (a) of this section is the requirement that the Parks and |
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Wildlife Department use the property transferred only for a public |
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park, a purpose that benefits the public interest of the state. If |
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the Parks and Wildlife Department no longer uses the property for a |
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public park, ownership of the property automatically reverts to the |
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Texas Department of Transportation. |
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(c) The Texas Department of Transportation shall transfer |
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the property by an appropriate instrument of transfer, executed on |
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its behalf by the commissioner of the General Land Office. The |
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instrument of transfer must: |
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(1) include a provision that: |
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(A) requires the Parks and Wildlife Department to |
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use the property for a public park, a purpose that benefits the |
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public interest of the state; |
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(B) allows the Parks and Wildlife Department to |
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lease the property described by Subsection (d) to the Williamson |
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County Parks and Recreation Department for use as a public park; and |
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(C) indicates that ownership of the property |
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automatically reverts to the Texas Department of Transportation if |
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the Parks and Wildlife Department no longer uses the property for a |
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public park; and |
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(2) describe the property to be transferred by metes |
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and bounds. |
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(d) The real property to which Subsection (a) of this |
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section refers is described as follows: |
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A tract of land situated in the Damon Survey, Abstract No. 170, in |
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Williamson County, Texas, being all of that called 6.180 acre tract |
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of land (Tract 7), as shown on that unrecorded plat prepared by KC |
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Engineering dated July 18, 1994, on ten (10) tracts of land out of |
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that called 780.508 acre tract of land conveyed to the State of |
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Texas, State Department of Highways and Public Transportation, by |
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instrument recorded in Volume 1723, Page 855, of the Official |
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Records of Williamson County, Texas. |
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SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
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a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
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provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
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Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
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Act takes effect September 1, 2011. |