Bill Text: TX SB822 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the transfer of certain property from The University of Texas System to the Parks and Wildlife Department.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-05-17 - Left pending in committee [SB822 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB822-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the transfer of certain property from The University of Texas System to the Parks and Wildlife Department.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-05-17 - Left pending in committee [SB822 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB822-Comm_Sub.html
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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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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