By: Ogden S.B. No. 2484
(In the Senate - Filed April 1, 2009; April 6, 2009, read
first time and referred to Committee on Finance; April 24, 2009,
reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 10, Nays 0;
April 24, 2009, sent to printer.)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the transfer of certain state property from the Texas
Department of Transportation 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, 2009, the Texas
Department of Transportation shall transfer to the Parks and
Wildlife Department the real property described by Subsection (d)
of this section.
(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
park, a purpose that benefits the public interest of the state. If
the Parks and Wildlife Department no longer uses the property for a
public park, ownership of the property automatically reverts to the
Texas Department of Transportation.
(c) The Texas Department of Transportation shall transfer
the property by an appropriate instrument of transfer, executed on
its behalf by the Commissioner of the General Land Office. The
instrument of transfer must:
(1) include a provision that:
(A) requires the Parks and Wildlife Department to
use the property for a public park, a purpose that benefits the
public interest of the state;
(B) allows the Parks and Wildlife Department to
lease the property described by Subsection (d) of this section to
the Williamson County Parks and Recreation Department for use as a
public park; and
(C) indicates that ownership of the property
automatically reverts to the Texas Department of Transportation if
the Parks and Wildlife Department no longer uses the property for a
public park; and
(2) describe the property to be transferred by metes
and bounds.
(d) The real property to which Subsection (a) of this
section refers is described as follows:
A tract of land situated in the Damon Survey, Abstract No. 170, in
Williamson County, Texas, being all of that called 6.180 acre tract
of land (Tract 7), as shown on that unrecorded plat prepared by KC
Engineering dated July 18, 1994, on ten (10) tracts of land out of
that called 780.508 acre tract of land conveyed to the State of
Texas, State Department of Highways and Public Transportation, by
instrument recorded in Volume 1723, Page 855, of the Official
Records of Williamson County, Texas.
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, 2009.
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