84R4331 PMO-D
 
  By: Paddie H.B. No. 1617
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to authorizing certain real property transactions
  involving the Department of Public Safety of the State of Texas.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  (a) Subject to Subsections (b) and (c) of this
  section, the Department of Public Safety of the State of Texas may
  convey the real property described by Section 2 of this Act to the
  First United Pentecostal Church, Center, Texas, in exchange for the
  real property described by Section 3 of this Act conveyed by the
  First United Pentecostal Church to the Department of Public Safety
  of the State of Texas.
         (b)  The real property described by Section 2 of this Act may
  not be conveyed by the Department of Public Safety of the State of
  Texas to the First United Pentecostal Church unless the fair market
  value of the real property described by Section 3 of this Act is
  equal to or greater than the fair market value of the real property
  described by Section 2 of this Act. The fair market value of the
  real property must be established by an independent appraisal
  obtained by the asset management division of the General Land
  Office.
         (c)  In connection with the conveyance of the real property
  described by Section 2 of this Act, the state shall reserve:
               (1)  the state's interest in all oil, gas, and other
  minerals in and under the real property described by Section 2 of
  this Act;
               (2)  the state's right to remove from the real property
  described by Section 2 of this Act any oil, gas, and other minerals
  in and under the real property; and
               (3)  the state's right to grant a lease held by the
  state before a conveyance of the real property described by Section
  2 of this Act relating to the removal of oil, gas, and other
  minerals in and under the real property.
         (d)  Sections 31.1571, 31.158, and 31.159, Natural Resources
  Code, do not apply to the exchange of real property authorized by
  this Act.
         SECTION 2.  The real property held by the Department of
  Public Safety of the State of Texas is land being situated in Shelby
  County, Texas, and more particularly described as follows:
         BEING 3.167 acres of land, more or less, out of the J. AMASON
  Survey, Abstract No. 10, in Shelby County, Texas, and also being a
  portion of and the same tract as described in a deed to the State of
  Texas acting through the State Highway Commission from Dr. J. M.
  Rogers and wife Cora M. Rogers, dated April 19, 1950, recorded in
  Volume 292, Page 513, Deed Records of Shelby County, Texas; said
  3.167 acres of land, more or less, is more particularly described by
  metes and bounds as follows, to-wit:
         BEGINNING at a junction of the East right of way line of the
  new location of U. S. Highway 96 and the line between the tract
  herein conveyed and a tract owned by L. F. Holder. Said junction
  being N 74 deg. 16 min. E, 61.00 feet from Centerline Station
  2481+39 of said U. S. Highway 96;
         THENCE N 74 deg. 16 min. E, along said Holder line, 226.60
  feet to a point for a corner, said point being the Northwest corner
  of Mrs. Katheryn Walker's 2 acre tract;
         THENCE S 13 deg. 02 min. E, along the West boundary line of
  Mrs. Katheryn Walker and of the Stalling place 446.00 feet to a
  point for a corner, said point being the Southwest corner of the
  Stalling place;
         THENCE S 18 deg. 44 min. W, 175.00 feet along fence to a point
  for corner;
         THENCE S 07 deg. 33 min. W, 81.00 feet along fence to a point
  for a corner on Ewell Samford's North boundary line;
         THENCE N 68 deg. 03 min. W, 154.99 feet along said Samford's
  North line, to a point for a corner on the East right of way line of
  said U. S. Highway 96, said point being S 68 deg. 03 min. E, 75.00
  feet from Centerline Station 2476+18 of said highway;
         THENCE N 10 deg. 54 min. W, 571.5 feet along the East right of
  way line of said Highway to the place of beginning.
         Said tract containing 3.167 acres of land.
         SECTION 3.  The real property held by the First United
  Pentecostal Church is:
         All that certain tract of land situated in Shelby County,
  Texas, in the JESSE AMASON SURVEY, A-10, being all that land
  conveyed from B. H. McCoy & wife, Archie Myrl McCoy to First United
  Pentecostal Church in Center, Texas, Inc. and recorded in Volume
  561 Page 745 of the Deed Records of Shelby County, Texas, and being
  more particularly described as follows.
  Note: in the following description
  Bearings refer to Grid North of the Texas Coordinate System of 1983
  (Central Zone 4203).
         BEGINNING at a 5/8" Iron Rod set with cap stamped "FSE
  ENGINEERING CENTER, TX" from which a Concrete Right-of-Way marker
  bears S 28° 16' 09" E a distance of 466.04 feet, said 5/8" Iron Rod
  also being the southwest corner of this property;
         THENCE N 14° 21' 20" W with east right-of-way of U.S. Highway
  96 a distance of 400.00 feet to a 5/8" Iron Rod set with cap stamped
  "FSE ENGINEERING CENTER, TX";
         THENCE N 71° 36' 30" E with the south line of the SECOND TRACT
  conveyed to Lowell C. Hufferd and recorded in Volume 948 Page 608 of
  the Official Public Records of Shelby County, Texas, at 308.20 feet
  pass a 5/8" Iron Rod set for reference with cap stamped "FSE
  ENGINEERING CENTER, TX" and at a total distance of 324.18 feet to a
  point for corner in the centerline of County Road 2205;
         THENCE S 19° 29' 22" E with the centerline of County Road 2205
  a distance of 300.00 feet to a point for corner from which a 5/8"
  Iron Rod set for reference with cap stamped "FSE ENGINEERING
  CENTER, TX" bears S 56° 08' 40" W a distance of 30.29 feet;
         THENCE S 56° 08' 40" W with the north line of a called 0.41
  acre tract conveyed to Harold Bennet and recorded in Volume 1080
  Page 103 of the Official Public Records of Shelby County, Texas, and
  the north line of a called 3.5108 acre tract conveyed to Thomas
  Howard and recorded in Volume 800 Page 652 of the Real Property
  Records of Shelby County, Texas, a distance of 371.53 feet to the
  Point of Beginning being 2.724 acres more or less.
         SECTION 4.  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, 2015.