Bill Text: TX HB1968 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Enrolled

Texas House Bill 1968 (Prior Session Legislation)

TX State Legislature page for HB1968

Bill Title: Relating to the transfer of certain state property from the Texas Juvenile Justice Department to Jefferson County.

Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2013-05-18 - Effective on 9/1/13 [HB1968 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-HB1968-Enrolled.html



	H.B. No. 1968




	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.


	______________________________	______________________________
	President of the Senate	Speaker of the House


	I certify that H.B. No. 1968 was passed by the House on April
	11, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 144, Nays 0, 2 present, not
	voting.

	______________________________
	Chief Clerk of the House


	I certify that H.B. No. 1968 was passed by the Senate on May
	8, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0.

	______________________________
	Secretary of the Senate
	APPROVED: _____________________
	Date

	_____________________
	Governor