82R13011 TJS-D
By: Kolkhorst H.B. No. 2618
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
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.