By: Estes, et al.  S.B. No. 822
         (In the Senate - Filed February 10, 2017; February 27, 2017,
  read first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources &
  Economic Development; April 4, 2017, reported favorably by the
  following vote:  Yeas 6, Nays 5; April 4, 2017, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the transfer of certain property from The University of
  Texas System to the Parks and Wildlife Department.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  (a)  Not later than December 31, 2017, the board
  of regents of The University of Texas System shall transfer to the
  Parks and Wildlife Department the real property described by
  Section 2 of this Act.
         (b)  The consideration for the transfer authorized by
  Subsection (a) of this section is the requirement that the Parks and
  Wildlife Department use the property transferred only for a public
  golf course, a purpose that benefits the public interest of the
  state. If the Parks and Wildlife Department no longer uses the
  property for a public golf course, ownership of the property
  automatically reverts to The University of Texas System.
         (c)  The board of regents of The University of Texas System
  shall transfer the property by an appropriate instrument of
  transfer that:
               (1)  includes a provision that:
                     (A)  requires the Parks and Wildlife Department to
  use the property for a public golf course, a purpose that benefits
  the public interest of the state; and
                     (B)  indicates that ownership of the property
  automatically reverts to The University of Texas System if the
  Parks and Wildlife Department no longer uses the property for a
  public golf course; and
               (2)  describes the property to be transferred by metes
  and bounds.
         (d)  All contracts, leases, and other obligations governing
  the real property described by Section 2 of this Act in effect on
  the effective date of this Act are transferred to the Parks and
  Wildlife Department.
         (e)  Sections 31.158 and 31.159, Natural Resources Code, do
  not apply to the transfer of real property authorized by this Act.
         SECTION 2.  The real property to which Section 1 of this Act
  refers is described as follows:
  A 141.38 ACRE TRACT OF LAND SITUATED IN THE D. J. GILBERT SURVEY NO.
  8, IN THE CITY OF AUSTIN, TRAVIS COUNTY, TEXAS, BEING A PORTION OF
  THAT CERTAIN 353 ACRE TRACT OF LAND CONVEYED BY GEORGE W.
  BRACKENRIDGE TO THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS BY DEED DATED JUNE 17, 1910
  AND RECORDED IN BOOK 244, PAGES 77 AND 78 OF THE TRAVIS COUNTY,
  TEXAS DEED RECORDS, SAID 141.38 ACRE TRACT OF LAND BEING MORE
  PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED BY METES AND BOUNDS AS FOLLOWS:
  BEGINNING at a 1/2 inch iron pipe found for the most southerly east
  corner of the herein described tract, being the southerly southwest
  corner of that certain 5.53 acre tract of land conveyed to The City
  of Austin for street purposes as Tract Number Three recorded in
  Volume 4993, Pages 489 to 495 of said deed records, being on the
  west line of existing Exposition Boulevard and on the northeast
  line of Lake Austin Boulevard;
  THENCE along the northeast line of said Lake Austin Boulevard in a
  northwesterly direction the following five (5) courses:
         1.  N 29°52'04" W, 383.94 feet to a 1/2 inch iron pipe found
  for a non-tangent point of curvature,
         2.  a distance of 169.14 feet along the arc of a curve to the
  left having a central angle of 2°35'01", a radius of 3,751.04 feet
  and a chord bearing N 31°10'55" W, 169.13 feet to a 1/2 inch iron
  pipe found for a non-tangent point,
         3.  N 32°27'00" W, 2,881.84 feet to a 1/2 inch iron pipe found
  for a non-tangent point of curvature,
         4.  a distance of 659.98 feet along the arc of a curve to the
  right having a central angle of 28°41'48", a radius of 1,317.72 feet
  and a chord bearing N 18°04'40" W, 653.10 feet to a 1/2 inch iron
  pipe found for a non-tangent point, and
         5.  N 03°45'00" W, parallel to and a perpendicular distance of
  50.00 feet east of the monumented centerline of Lake Austin
  Boulevard as shown on drawing number R-6 in the records of the
  Department of Engineering of the City of Austin, Texas, 225.87 feet
  to a 5/8 inch iron rod set for the northwesterly corner of the
  herein described tract;
  THENCE departing the east line of said Lake Austin Boulevard N
  87°44'57" E, at 7.46 feet pass a 5/8 inch iron rod set at the
  southwest corner of Lake Addition, a subdivision recorded in Book
  137, Page 377 of the said deed records, being the southwest corner
  of Park Street, a dedicated sixty (60) foot right-of-way of said
  Lake Addition later vacated by City of Austin Ordinance No. 731213A
  and retained as a sixty (60) foot Public Utility Easement as
  recorded in Volume 4820, Page 598 and continuing along the south
  line of said Lake Addition being the south line of said Park Street
  a total distance of 1,384.86 feet to a 1/2 inch iron pipe found for
  the southeast corner of said Park Street, being on the south line of
  existing Enfield Road;
  THENCE along the south line of Enfield Road S 60°43'03" E, 92.46 feet
  to a 5/8 inch iron rod set at the most northerly southwest corner of
  that certain 5.53 acre tract of land conveyed to the City of Austin
  for street purposes as Tract Number Three recorded in Volume 4993,
  Pages 489 to 495 of said deed records;
  THENCE along the south line of said Enfield Road, being the most
  northerly south line of said 5.53 acre tract S 60°29'08" E, 1,176.72
  feet to a 5/8 inch iron rod set in the southerly prolongation of the
  centerline of Hopi Trail, being 23.52 feet south of the monumented
  baseline of Enfield Road from Hopi Trail westerly to Schulle Avenue
  as shown in the records of the Department of Engineering of the City
  of Austin;
  THENCE continuing along the south line of said Enfield Road, being
  the most northerly south line of said 5.53 acre tract S 59°04'00" E,
  117.61 feet to a 5/8 inch iron rod set;
  THENCE departing the south line of said Enfield Road and crossing
  said University tract in a southerly direction the following seven
  courses:
         1.  S 42°14'36" W, 458.84 feet to a 5/8 inch iron rod set,
         2.  S 19°36'11" E, 352.49 feet to a 5/8 inch iron rod set,
         3.  N 84°48'18" E, 222.56 feet to a 5/8 inch iron rod set,
         4.  S 78°55'27" E, 281.07 feet to a 5/8 inch iron rod set,
         5.  S 41°50'16" E, 178.37 feet to a 3/4 inch iron rod in a
  concrete monument found marked number 3 as shown on Plan Number
  R-205-A of Metcalfe Engineering Company of Austin, Texas,
         6.  S 31°55'23" E, 75.55 feet to a 5/8 inch iron rod set, and
         7.  S 13°47'39" E, 332.44 feet to a 5/8 inch iron rod set on
  the east line of the herein described tract, being on the west line
  of said 5.53 acre tract being the west line of Exposition Boulevard;
  THENCE along the west line of said 5.53 acre tract, being the west
  line of Exposition Boulevard and the east line of the herein
  described tract the following two (2) courses:
         1.  S 29°50'13" W, 736.22 feet to a 5/8 inch iron rod set, and
         2.  S 29°56'14" W, 1,454.80 feet to the POINT OF BEGINNING
  containing 141.38 acres of land more or less.
         SECTION 3.  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, 2017.
 
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