By: Deshotel (Senate Sponsor - Williams) H.B. No. 1968
         (In the Senate - Received from the House April 15, 2013;
  April 17, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on
  Government Organization; May 1, 2013, reported favorably by the
  following vote:  Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 1, 2013, sent to printer.)
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the transfer of certain state property from the Texas
  Juvenile Justice Department to Jefferson County.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  (a)  Not later than January 31, 2014, the Texas
  Juvenile Justice Department shall donate and transfer to Jefferson
  County the real property described by Subsection (e) of this
  section.
         (b)  Jefferson County may use the property transferred under
  this Act only for a purpose that benefits the public interest of the
  state. If Jefferson County uses the property for any purpose other
  than a purpose described by this subsection, ownership of the
  property automatically reverts to the Texas Juvenile Justice
  Department.
         (c)  The Texas Juvenile Justice Department shall transfer
  the property by an appropriate instrument of transfer. The
  instrument of transfer must:
               (1)  provide that:
                     (A)  Jefferson County may use the property only
  for a purpose that benefits the public interest of the state; and
                     (B)  ownership of the property will automatically
  revert to the Texas Juvenile Justice Department if Jefferson County
  uses the property for any purpose other than a purpose described by
  Paragraph (A) of this subdivision; and
               (2)  describe the property to be transferred by metes
  and bounds.
         (d)  The Texas Juvenile Justice Department shall retain
  custody of the instrument of transfer after the instrument of
  transfer is filed in the real property records of Jefferson County.
         (e)  The real property referred to in this section is
  described as follows:
         Field note description of a 50.234 acre tract of land in the
  T. & N.O.R.R. Survey, Section No. 1, Abstract No. 257 and the W.M.
  Carrol Survey, Abstract No. 13, Jefferson County, Texas.  BEING a
  50.234 acre tract or parcel of land out of and a part of tracts 15-A
  and 14-A of the partition map no. 2 of the McFaddin Trust as
  recorded in Vol. 7, Pg. 133, of the map records of Jefferson County,
  said tract 15-A being conveyed to Jefferson County by that certain
  deed from J.L. Caldwell Company Trust as recorded on film code no.
  102-98-2140, tract no. 14-A from Divernon M. Berly to Jefferson
  County as recorded on film code no. 102-98-2006, Jefferson County
  deed records, said 50.234 acre tract being more fully described by
  metes and bounds as follows:
         For a locative corner, a Gulf States Utilities Company
  concrete monument found at the intersection of the Southerly line
  of said tract 15-A and the Westerly Right-of-Way line of U.S.
  Highway 69,96 and 287 (338 feet wide).  Said monument also being the
  Southeast corner of a Gulf States Utilities Company fee strip (198
  feet wide) as recorded in Vol. 1586, Pg. 196 of the Deed Records of
  Jefferson County, Texas;
         THENCE North 23 degrees 37' 09" West with the Westerly
  Right-of-Way line of said Highway for a distance of 216.64' to a
  1/2" iron rod found at the intersection of the Northerly line of
  said fee strip and the Westerly Right-of-Way line of said Highway
  and being the Southeast corner of that certain tract described in
  deed from J.L. Caldwell Company Trust to Jefferson County and
  recorded of film code no. 102-98-2140, Jefferson County Deed
  Records;
         THENCE North 23 degrees 57' 31" West along the Westerly
  Right-of-Way line of said Highway and the Easterly line of tract
  15-A for a distance of 1098.15' to a 1/2" iron rod set for the
  Southeast corner of the herein described tract and THE PLACE OF
  BEGINNING;
         THENCE North 79 degrees 06' 40" West a distance of 1462.25' to
  an iron rod set for the Southwest corner of the herein described
  tract;
         THENCE North 23 degrees 57' 31" West 1200' from and parallel
  to the Westerly Right-of-Way line of U.S. Highway 69,96 and 287 for
  a distance of 1825.0' to an iron rod set for the Northwest corner of
  the herein described tract, said corner being located in the
  Northerly line of the Jefferson County 250 acre tract and the
  Southerly line of a 689.690 acre tract from Jefferson County to the
  Texas Department of Criminal Justice and described in deed on film
  code no. 102-98-2207, Jefferson County Deed Records;
         THENCE South 79 degrees 06' 40" East along the Northerly line
  of said Jefferson County 250 acre tract and the Southerly line of
  the Texas Department of Criminal Justice 689.690 acre tract for a
  distance of 1442.66' to a 3.25" aluminum disk set in the Southerly
  Right-of-Way line of proposed F.M. 3514 as described in a donation
  deed from Jefferson County to the Texas Department of
  Transportation and recorded on film code no. 104-16-1046, Jefferson
  County Deed Records;
         THENCE South 27 degrees 54' 08" East along the proposed South
  Right-of-Way line of F.M. 3514 a distance of 233.76' to a 3.25" 
  aluminum disk set in the existing Right-of-Way line of U.S. Highway
  69.96 and 287;
         THENCE South 23 degrees 57' 31" East along the Westerly
  Right-of-Way line of said Highway and the Easterly line of the
  herein described tract a distance of 1602.99' to the POINT OF
  BEGINNING and containing 50.234 acres, more or less.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.
 
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