Bill Text: TX HB2518 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to the transfer of certain state property from the Texas Board of Criminal Justice to the board of regents of The Texas A&M University System for the use and benefit of the Texas Forest Service.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective immediately [HB2518 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB2518-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to the transfer of certain state property from the Texas Board of Criminal Justice to the board of regents of The Texas A&M University System for the use and benefit of the Texas Forest Service.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective immediately [HB2518 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB2518-Introduced.html
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By: Kolkhorst | H.B. No. 2518 |
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relating to the transfer of certain state property from the Texas | ||
Department of Criminal Justice to the Texas Forest Service. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. (a) Not later than the 30th day after the | ||
effective date of this Act, the Texas Department of Criminal | ||
Justice shall transfer to the Texas Forest Service the real | ||
property described by Subsection (e) of this section. | ||
(b) The Texas Forest Service shall use the property | ||
transferred under this Act only for a purpose that benefits the | ||
public interest of the state. If the Texas Forest Service uses the | ||
property for any purpose other than a purpose that benefits the | ||
public interest of the state, ownership of the property | ||
automatically reverts to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. | ||
(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) the Texas Forest Service 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 Department of Criminal Justice if the Texas | ||
Forest Service uses the property for any purpose other than a | ||
purpose that benefits the public interest of the state; 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 Walker County. | ||
(e) The real property referred to in this section is | ||
described as follows: | ||
Being 2.195 acres of land, more or less, situated in the City | ||
of Huntsville, WARREN BIRDSELL SURVEY, Abstract No. 6 and P. GRAY | ||
SURVEY, Abstract No. 24, Walker County, Texas and being out of and a | ||
part of a called 515 acre tract as described in a Deed from Ed H. | ||
Cunningham, et al to the State of Texas (Texas Department of | ||
Corrections), dated June 23, 1883 and recorded in Volume Y, Page | ||
181, Deed Records and further described as a 2.19 acre tract in a | ||
Lease from the Texas Department of Corrections to the Board of | ||
Regents of the Texas A & M University System for the use of the Texas | ||
Forest Service, recorded in Volume 84, Page 783, Official Records, | ||
said 2.195 acre tract being more definitely described as follows: | ||
BEGINNING at the northwest corner of said 2.19 acre tract | ||
(Lease tract), same being the south right-of-way of State Highway | ||
75, as per Volume 209, Page 707, Deed Records and also being | ||
S75°34'14"E-50.0 feet from the apparent and called northeast corner | ||
of a 1-1/2 acre tract as described in a Transfer of Title from the | ||
Texas Board of Corrections to the Texas Department of Public | ||
Safety, dated February 17, 1982 and recorded in Volume 391, Page | ||
724, Deed Records and further described by an unrecorded resurvey | ||
(called 1.500 acres) by N. B. Davidson, Jr., RPLS No. 2066, dated | ||
June, 1982, found a 5/8" iron rod; | ||
THENCE S75°35'14"E (Lease Call, S73°23'00"E-250.00 feet), | ||
with the north line of said 2.19 acre tract (Lease tract) and the | ||
south line of said S.H. 75, for a distance of 250.00 feet to the | ||
northeast corner of said 2.19 acre tract (Lease tract), found a 5/8" | ||
iron rod; | ||
THENCE S14°22'46"W (Lease call, S16°35'00"W-453.60 feet), | ||
with the east line of said 2.19 acre tract (Lease tract) and | ||
crossing said 515 acre tract, for a distance of 453.60 feet to the | ||
southeast corner of said 2.19 acre tract (Lease tract), same being | ||
the called and apparent northeast right-of-way line of Interstate | ||
Highway 45, as per Deed from the Texas Prison Board to the State of | ||
Texas, recorded in Volume 158, Page 177 (Tract No. 1, call 55.13 | ||
acres), Deed Records, found a 5/8" iron rod, from which a concrete | ||
right-of-way monument, found for reference only, bears | ||
S45°57'14"E-0.15 feet; | ||
THENCE N45°57'14"W (Lease call, N43°45'00"W-287.70 feet), | ||
with the southwest line of said 2.19 acre tract (Lease tract) and | ||
the called and apparent northeast line of said I.H. 45, for a | ||
distance of 287.70 feet to the southwest corner of said 2.19 acre | ||
tract (Lease tract), set a 5/8" iron rod with an orange, plastic | ||
cap, marked "RPLS-4066"; | ||
THENCE N14°22'38"E (Lease call N16°35'00"E-311.35 feet), with | ||
the west line of said 2.19 acre tract (Lease tract) and being 50.0 | ||
feet east of and parallel to the called and apparent east line of | ||
said 1.500 acre tract, for a distance of 311.35 feet to the PLACE OF | ||
BEGINNING. | ||
NOTE: Bearings referenced to the called north line of said | ||
2.19 acre tract (S75°35'14'E) in Volume 412, Page 149, Official | ||
Records. | ||
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, 2011. |