Bill Text: TX HB2518 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Comm Sub

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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]

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  By: Kolkhorst (Senate Sponsor - Ogden) H.B. No. 2518
         (In the Senate - Received from the House April 27, 2011;
  May 3, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on
  Government Organization; May 18, 2011, reported favorably by the
  following vote:  Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 18, 2011, sent to printer.)
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  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.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  (a)  Not later than January 1, 2012, the Texas
  Board of Criminal Justice shall transfer to the board of regents of
  The Texas A&M University System the real property described by
  Subsection (e) of this section.
         (b)  The board of regents of The Texas A&M University System
  shall use the property transferred under this Act only for the use
  and benefit of the Texas Forest Service. If the board of regents of
  The Texas A&M University System uses the property for any purpose
  other than for the use and benefit of the Texas Forest Service,
  ownership of the property automatically reverts to the Texas Board
  of Criminal Justice.
         (c)  The Texas Board of Criminal Justice shall transfer the
  property by an appropriate instrument of transfer. The instrument
  of transfer must:
               (1)  provide that:
                     (A)  the board of regents of The Texas A&M
  University System use the property only for the use and benefit of
  the Texas Forest Service; and
                     (B)  ownership of the property will automatically
  revert to the Texas Board of Criminal Justice if the board of
  regents of The Texas A&M University System uses the property for any
  purpose other than for the use and benefit of the Texas Forest
  Service; and
               (2)  describe the property to be transferred by metes
  and bounds.
         (d)  The board of regents of The Texas A&M University System
  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 2.536 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 all of the
  following tracts or parcels of land: a). a 0.341 acre tract 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 b). being all of a 2.19 acre tract as
  described in an Instrument 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, as recorded in Volume 84, Page 783,
  Official Records, said two tracts being more definitely described
  as one contiguous tract of 2.536 acres as follows:
         BEGINNING at the northwest corner of said 2.19 acre tract,
  same being the northeast corner of said 0.341 acre tract and also
  being the south right-of-way of State Highway 75, as per Volume 209,
  Page 707, Deed Records, found a 5/8" iron rod;
         THENCE S75°35'14"E (2.19 acre call-S73°23'00"E-250.00 feet),
  with the north line of said 2.19 acre 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, found a 5/8" iron rod;
         THENCE S14°22'46"W, with the east line of said 2.19 acre
  tract, for a distance of 453.60 feet to its southeast corner, 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 (2.19 acre call-N43°45'00"W-287.70 feet),
  with the southwest line of said 2.19 acre tract and the called and
  apparent northeast line of said I.H. 45, at 287.70 feet pass a point
  for the southwest corner of said 2.19 acre tract, same being the
  southeast corner of said 0.341 acre tract, continuing for a total
  distance of 345.23 feet to the southwest corner of said 0.341 acre
  tract, same being the east line 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, recorded in Volume 391, Page
  724, Deed Records, and further evidenced by an unrecorded survey
  (called 1.500 acres) by N. B.
  Davidson, Jr., RPLS No. 2066, dated June, 1982, set a 5/8" iron rod
  with an orange, plastic cap, marked "RPLS-4066";
         THENCE N14°22'38"E (1-1/2 acre call-N16°37'E-289.50 feet),
  with the west line of said 0.341 acre tract and the east line of said
  1-1/2 acre tract, for a distance of 282.93 feet to the northwest
  corner of said 0.341 acre tract, same being the northeast corner of
  said 1-1/2 acre tract, found a 1/2" iron rod in the called south
  right-of-way of said S.H. 75;
         THENCE S75°35'14"E, with the north line of said 0.341 acre
  tract and the called south line of said S.H. 75, for a distance of
  50.00 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.
 
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