83R8252 NC-D
By: Deshotel H.B. No. 1968
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the transfer of certain state property from the Texas
Juvenile Justice Department to Jefferson County.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. (a) Not later than January 31, 2014, the Texas
Juvenile Justice Department shall donate and transfer to Jefferson
County the real property described by Subsection (e) of this
section.
(b) Jefferson County may use the property transferred under
this Act only for a purpose that benefits the public interest of the
state. If Jefferson County uses the property for any purpose other
than a purpose described by this subsection, ownership of the
property automatically reverts to the Texas Juvenile Justice
Department.
(c) The Texas Juvenile Justice Department shall transfer
the property by an appropriate instrument of transfer. The
instrument of transfer must:
(1) provide that:
(A) Jefferson County may use the property only
for a purpose that benefits the public interest of the state; and
(B) ownership of the property will automatically
revert to the Texas Juvenile Justice Department if Jefferson 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 Juvenile Justice Department shall retain
custody of the instrument of transfer after the instrument of
transfer is filed in the real property records of Jefferson County.
(e) The real property referred to in this section is
described as follows:
Field note description of a 50.234 acre tract of land in the
T. & N.O.R.R. Survey, Section No. 1, Abstract No. 257 and the W.M.
Carrol Survey, Abstract No. 13, Jefferson County, Texas. BEING a
50.234 acre tract or parcel of land out of and a part of tracts 15-A
and 14-A of the partition map no. 2 of the McFaddin Trust as
recorded in Vol. 7, Pg. 133, of the map records of Jefferson County,
said tract 15-A being conveyed to Jefferson County by that certain
deed from J.L. Caldwell Company Trust as recorded on film code no.
102-98-2140, tract no. 14-A from Divernon M. Berly to Jefferson
County as recorded on film code no. 102-98-2006, Jefferson County
deed records, said 50.234 acre tract being more fully described by
metes and bounds as follows:
For a locative corner, a Gulf States Utilities Company
concrete monument found at the intersection of the Southerly line
of said tract 15-A and the Westerly Right-of-Way line of U.S.
Highway 69,96 and 287 (338 feet wide). Said monument also being the
Southeast corner of a Gulf States Utilities Company fee strip (198
feet wide) as recorded in Vol. 1586, Pg. 196 of the Deed Records of
Jefferson County, Texas;
THENCE North 23 degrees 37' 09" West with the Westerly
Right-of-Way line of said Highway for a distance of 216.64' to a
1/2" iron rod found at the intersection of the Northerly line of
said fee strip and the Westerly Right-of-Way line of said Highway
and being the Southeast corner of that certain tract described in
deed from J.L. Caldwell Company Trust to Jefferson County and
recorded of film code no. 102-98-2140, Jefferson County Deed
Records;
THENCE North 23 degrees 57' 31" West along the Westerly
Right-of-Way line of said Highway and the Easterly line of tract
15-A for a distance of 1098.15' to a 1/2" iron rod set for the
Southeast corner of the herein described tract and THE PLACE OF
BEGINNING;
THENCE North 79 degrees 06' 40" West a distance of 1462.25' to
an iron rod set for the Southwest corner of the herein described
tract;
THENCE North 23 degrees 57' 31" West 1200' from and parallel
to the Westerly Right-of-Way line of U.S. Highway 69,96 and 287 for
a distance of 1825.0' to an iron rod set for the Northwest corner of
the herein described tract, said corner being located in the
Northerly line of the Jefferson County 250 acre tract and the
Southerly line of a 689.690 acre tract from Jefferson County to the
Texas Department of Criminal Justice and described in deed on film
code no. 102-98-2207, Jefferson County Deed Records;
THENCE South 79 degrees 06' 40" East along the Northerly line
of said Jefferson County 250 acre tract and the Southerly line of
the Texas Department of Criminal Justice 689.690 acre tract for a
distance of 1442.66' to a 3.25" aluminum disk set in the Southerly
Right-of-Way line of proposed F.M. 3514 as described in a donation
deed from Jefferson County to the Texas Department of
Transportation and recorded on film code no. 104-16-1046, Jefferson
County Deed Records;
THENCE South 27 degrees 54' 08" East along the proposed South
Right-of-Way line of F.M. 3514 a distance of 233.76' to a 3.25"
aluminum disk set in the existing Right-of-Way line of U.S. Highway
69.96 and 287;
THENCE South 23 degrees 57' 31" East along the Westerly
Right-of-Way line of said Highway and the Easterly line of the
herein described tract a distance of 1602.99' to the POINT OF
BEGINNING and containing 50.234 acres, more or less.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.