Bill Text: TX HB2618 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the transfer of certain state property from the Texas Board of Criminal Justice to Walker County.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-15 - Referred to Corrections [HB2618 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB2618-Introduced.html
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| By: Kolkhorst | H.B. No. 2618 | |
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| relating to the transfer of certain state property from the Texas | ||
| Board of Criminal Justice to Walker County. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. (a) Not later than January 31, 2012, the Texas | ||
| Board of Criminal Justice shall donate and transfer to Walker | ||
| County the real property described by Subsection (e) of this | ||
| section. | ||
| (b) Walker County shall use the property transferred under | ||
| this Act only for a purpose that benefits the public interest of the | ||
| state by memorializing veterans with a museum and related static | ||
| displays. If Walker County uses the property for any purpose other | ||
| than a purpose described by this subsection, 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) Walker County shall use the property only for | ||
| a purpose that benefits the public interest of the state by | ||
| memorializing veterans with a museum and related static displays; | ||
| and | ||
| (B) ownership of the property will automatically | ||
| revert to the Texas Board of Criminal Justice if Walker 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 Board 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 5.57 acres of land, situated in the City of Huntsville, | ||
| PLEASANT GRAY LEAGUE, Abstract No. 24, Walker County, Texas, and | ||
| being out of and a part of the residue of a called 515 acre tract | ||
| described in a Deed from Ed H. Cunningham and L.A. Ellis to the | ||
| Governor of the State of Texas dated July 10, 1883 and recorded in | ||
| Volume Y, page 181, Deed Records of Walker County, Texas said 5.57 | ||
| acres being more definitely described by metes and bounds as | ||
| follows: | ||
| BEGINNING for reference only, at the northeast corner of a | ||
| called 10.01 acre tract out of said 515 acres as described in a Deed | ||
| from the State of Texas to Walker County dated February 3, 2000 and | ||
| recorded in Volume 417, page 218, Official Public Records, said | ||
| corner being in a south line of a called 3.78 acre tract described | ||
| in a Deed from Texas Department of Corrections to the State of Texas | ||
| (for additional State Highway No. 75 Right-of-Way) dated November | ||
| 14, 1967 and recorded in Volume 209, page 707, Deed Records, at a | ||
| 5/8" iron rod with plastic cap having coordinates of | ||
| N=10,263,443.31 feet and E=3,788,337.42 feet for corner in the | ||
| south right-of-way line of State Highway No. 75; | ||
| THENCE, S 29°55'00"W with the east line of said Walker County, | ||
| 10.01 acre tract, a distance of 408.18 feet to the Beginning Point | ||
| for the said 5.57 acre herein described; said beginning point being | ||
| common with southwest corner of the Walker County 5.0 acre tract | ||
| described in a deed from Texas Board of Criminal Justice in volume | ||
| 595, page 210 of the Walker County Official Records; | ||
| THENCE, S 83°08'57"E for a distance of 438.01 feet with the | ||
| southerly property line of the above mentioned Walker County 5.0 | ||
| acre tract of land to a point in the said property line, set an iron | ||
| rod; | ||
| THENCE, S29°55'00"W for a distance of 707.49 feet across the | ||
| Texas Board of Criminal Justice property to a point marked with an | ||
| iron rod in the easterly Right-of-Way line of I-45 and common with | ||
| the property line of the Texas Board of Criminal Justice property as | ||
| created by the Texas Department of Transportation right-of-way | ||
| obtained across the property described in Volume Y, Page 181, | ||
| Walker County, Texas Official Deed Records; | ||
| THENCE, N55°07'42"W for a distance of 355.78 feet to a point | ||
| in the I-45 Right-of-Way line designated as a point of Right-of-Way | ||
| widening for future construction by Texas Department of | ||
| Transportation described in a document from State of Texas Board of | ||
| Criminal Justice to Walker County, Texas, recorded in Volume 412, | ||
| Page 149 of the Official Public Records of Walker County, Texas, set | ||
| an iron rod; | ||
| THENCE, N34°50'47"E for a distance of 20.28 feet to a ell | ||
| corner point of the 5.57 acre tract herein described in the said | ||
| Right-of-Way widening for future construction, set an iron rod; | ||
| THENCE, N55°02'52"W for a distance of 50.07 feet to a point, | ||
| found iron rod, where the said Rights-of-Way widening line | ||
| intersects with the easterly property line of the previously | ||
| described 10.01 acre Walker County tract, and a common line of the | ||
| herein described 5.57 acre tract; | ||
| THENCE, N29°45'46"E with the East line of the said 10.01 acre | ||
| Walker County tract for a distance of 150.55 feet to a point marked | ||
| with an iron rod. | ||
| THENCE, N29°55'00"E for a distance of 330.00 feet to the POINT | ||
| OF BEGINNING and containing 5.57 acres of land. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
