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            |  | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED | 
         
            |  | AN ACT | 
         
            |  | relating to the transfer of certain state property from the Texas | 
         
            |  | Department of Criminal Justice to Stephens County. | 
         
            |  | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | 
         
            |  | SECTION 1.  (a)  As soon as practicable, the Texas Department | 
         
            |  | of Criminal Justice shall transfer to Stephens County the real | 
         
            |  | property interests of the State of Texas and the department in the | 
         
            |  | tracts of land described by Subsection (f) of this section. | 
         
            |  | (b)  Stephens County may use the property transferred under | 
         
            |  | this Act only for a purpose that benefits the public.  If Stephens | 
         
            |  | County uses the property for any purpose other than a purpose | 
         
            |  | described by this subsection, ownership of the property | 
         
            |  | automatically reverts to the State of Texas. | 
         
            |  | (c)  The Texas Department of Criminal Justice shall transfer | 
         
            |  | the property by an appropriate instrument of transfer.  The | 
         
            |  | instrument of transfer must: | 
         
            |  | (1)  provide that: | 
         
            |  | (A)  Stephens County may use the property only for | 
         
            |  | a purpose that benefits the public; and | 
         
            |  | (B)  ownership of the property will automatically | 
         
            |  | revert to the State of Texas if Stephens 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 Department of Criminal Justice shall retain | 
         
            |  | custody of the instrument of transfer after the instrument of | 
         
            |  | transfer is filed in the real property records of Stephens County. | 
         
            |  | (e)  Sections 31.158 and 31.159, Natural Resources Code, do | 
         
            |  | not apply to the transfer of real property authorized by this Act. | 
         
            |  | (f)  The tracts of land referred to in this section are | 
         
            |  | described as follows: | 
         
            |  | (1)  149.04 acres of land out of T. E. & L. 1177, A-1948 | 
         
            |  | and A. B. & M. Survey 2, A-1586, Stephens County, Texas, and being | 
         
            |  | part of a tract of land described in deed recorded in Volume 1071 | 
         
            |  | Page 186 Official Public Records, Stephens County, Texas. | 
         
            |  | BEGINNING at the northeast corner of T. E. & L. 1177 and at an | 
         
            |  | interior corner of A. B. & M. Survey 2; | 
         
            |  | THENCE N 89°47'36" E with the north line of the tract described in | 
         
            |  | Volume 1071 Page 186 and the south line of the tract described in | 
         
            |  | Volume 1747 Page 3 a distance of 1907.46' to a 1/2” iron pin found in | 
         
            |  | the east line of Survey 2 A. B. & M. for the northeast corner of the | 
         
            |  | tract described in Volume 1071 and the southeast corner of the tract | 
         
            |  | described in Volume 1747 Page 3 for the northeast corner of this | 
         
            |  | tract; | 
         
            |  | THENCE S 00°56'23" W with the east line of Survey 2 A. B. & M. a | 
         
            |  | distance of 747.17' to a 1/2” iron pin found for a corner in the | 
         
            |  | north line of County Road 173; | 
         
            |  | THENCE S 00°10'58" W continuing with the east line of Survey 2 A. B. & | 
         
            |  | M. and County Road 173 a distance of 1114.50' to a 1/2” iron pin | 
         
            |  | set for the northeast corner of a tract of land described in Volume | 
         
            |  | 1072 Page 285 and being the eastern most southeast corner of the | 
         
            |  | tract described in Volume 1071 Page 186; | 
         
            |  | THENCE N 89°49'02" W a distance of 1897.55' to a 1/2” iron pin set in | 
         
            |  | the east line of T. E. & L. 1177 for the northwest corner of the | 
         
            |  | tract described in Volume 1072 Page 285 and being an interior corner | 
         
            |  | of this tract; | 
         
            |  | THENCE S 00°10'58" W with the east line of T. E. & L. 1177 a distance | 
         
            |  | of 56.03' to a 1/2 iron pin set in the north line of an existing | 
         
            |  | road; | 
         
            |  | THENCE N 88°55'23" W with an existing fence line on the north line of | 
         
            |  | the road a distance of 1571.09' to a fence corner found for the | 
         
            |  | southwest corner of this tract; | 
         
            |  | THENCE N 00°03'36" E a distance of 1869.57' to a 1/2” iron pin set in | 
         
            |  | the north lien of T. E. & L. 1177 and the south line of Survey 2 A. B. & | 
         
            |  | M. for the northwest corner of this tract; | 
         
            |  | THENCE N 89°47'52" E with the north line of T. E. & L. 1177 and the | 
         
            |  | south line of Survey 2 A. B. & M. a distance of 1574.93' to the place | 
         
            |  | of beginning and containing 149.04 acres of land. (See attached | 
         
            |  | plat S-2153 B, bearings based on G.P.S. NAD 1983 coordinates); and | 
         
            |  | (2)  139.76 acres of land out of T. E. & L. 1177, | 
         
            |  | A-1948, Stephens County, Texas, and being part of a tract of land | 
         
            |  | described in deed recorded in Volume 1071 Page 186, Official Public | 
         
            |  | Records, Stephens County, Texas. | 
         
            |  | BEGINNING at a 1/2” iron pin found in County Road 173 for the | 
         
            |  | southeast corner of T. E. & L. 1177 and being the southern most | 
         
            |  | southeast corner of the tract described in Volume 1071 Page 186 for | 
         
            |  | the southeast corner of this tract; | 
         
            |  | THENCE N 89°56'48" W with the south line of T. E. & L. 1177 a distance | 
         
            |  | of 3536.23' to a 1/2” iron pin fond for the southeast corner of | 
         
            |  | Tract 2 as described in Volume 1072 Page 288 Page and being the | 
         
            |  | southwest corner of this tract; | 
         
            |  | THENCE N 00°00'42" E passing the northeast corner of the Tract 2 as | 
         
            |  | described in Volume 1072 Page 288 at a distance of 275.00’ and | 
         
            |  | continuing a total distance of 1668.83' to a 1/2” iron pin set for | 
         
            |  | the northwest corner of this tract; | 
         
            |  | THENCE S 89°57'24" E a distance of 1840.87' to a fence corner; | 
         
            |  | THENCE N 35°39'30" E a distance of 153.47' to a fence corner in the | 
         
            |  | south line of an existing road; | 
         
            |  | THENCE S 88°50'58" E with the fence on the south line the road a | 
         
            |  | distance of 1611.50' to a 1/2” iron pin set in the east line of T. E. & | 
         
            |  | L. 1177 and in County Road 173 for the northeast corner of this | 
         
            |  | tract; | 
         
            |  | THENCE S 00°10'58" W with the east line of T. E. & L. 1177 and the | 
         
            |  | county road a distance of 1763.07' to the place of beginning and | 
         
            |  | containing 139.76 acres of land. (See attached plat S-2153 B, | 
         
            |  | bearings based on G.P.S. NAD 1983 coordinates). | 
         
            |  | 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, 2021. |