By: Bonnen of Brazoria (Senate Sponsor - Taylor) H.B. No. 2895
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 9, 2013;
May 9, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on
Government Organization; May 16, 2013, reported adversely, with
favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 5,
Nays 0; May 16, 2013, sent to printer.)
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 2895 By: Schwertner
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to authorizing the sale of certain real property in
Brazoria County by the Texas Board of Criminal Justice.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. AUTHORIZATION FOR SALE. (a) Not later than
January 1, 2014, the Texas Board of Criminal Justice shall sell to
Brazoria County the real property specified in Section 2 of this Act
at fair market value without the requirement of a sealed bid if:
(1) the board receives an offer from the county to
purchase the property at fair market value; and
(2) the county acquires the property for a public
purpose.
(b) The sale shall include public or private easements or
rights-of-way benefiting or burdening the property, as necessary.
(c) The sale shall exclude all mineral interests in and
under the property, and the deed shall contain a provision
prohibiting any exploration, drilling, or other similar intrusion
on the property related to mineral interests.
SECTION 2. PROPERTY DESCRIPTION. The Texas Department of
Criminal Justice property to be sold as provided by Section 1 of
this Act consists of the following land:
ALL THAT CERTAIN 183.174 ACRE tract of land being out of a called
7424.4 acre tract conveyed to Texas Board of Corrections in Volume
145, Page 242 of the Brazoria County Deed Records, situated in the
Jared Groce 5 League Grant, Abstract 66, Brazoria County, Texas,
and being more particularly described by metes and bounds using
survey terminology which refers to the Texas State Plane Coordinate
System, South Central Zone, NAD 83 in which the directions are
Lambert grid bearings and the distances are horizontal surface
level lengths (SF=0.999870607) as follows:
BEGINNING at found concrete monument for the northeast corner of
the said Texas Board of Correction called 7424.4 acre tract, same
being the northwest corner of the residue of a called 300 acre tract
conveyed to Theodore H. Harrison and Phillip G. Harrison as
recorded in Volume 1096, Page 605 of the Brazoria County Deed
Records, located in the southern boundary line of a called 94.573
acre tract conveyed James Henson and Michael Echevarria, as
recorded in Clerk's File No. 06-036246 of the Brazoria County
Official Records, for the northeast corner of the herein described
tract, at position X=3132507.66 and Y=481860.50;
THENCE South 3°24'29" East, coincident with western boundary line of
said residue of a called 300 acre tract, a distance of 428.14 feet
to a set /58" iron rod with cap for an angle point, located in the
western right-of-way line of State Highway 288, conveyed to the
State of Texas as recorded in Volume 1239, Page 933 of the Brazoria
County Deed Records, at position X=3132533.10 and Y=481433.17;
THENCE South 5°08'56" West, coincident with the western
right-of-way line of said State Highway 288, a distance of 1952.17
feet to a point of curvature, at position X=3132357.93 and
Y=479489.13, from which a concrete monument found disturbed bears
South 72°36'37" West, a distance of 0.54 feet;
THENCE in a southerly direction, coincident with the western
right-of-way line of said State Highway 288, and along a curve to
left, having a radius of 11669.16 feet, a central angle of 8°33'05",
for an arc length of 1741.60 feet, the chord of said curve having a
bearing of South 0°52'23" West, and a chord distance of 1740.00 feet
to a point for corner, at position X=3132331.42 and Y=477749.55,
from which a concrete monument found disturbed bears South 72°14'12"
West, a distance of 0.86 feet;
THENCE South 3°24'09" East, coincident with the western
right-of-way line of said State Highway 288, a distance of 874.01
feet to a set 5/8" iron rod with cap for corner, at position
X=3132383.29 and Y=476877.20;
THENCE South 88°11'38" West, a distance of 1518.89 feet to a set 5/8"
iron rod for corner, said point being the southeast corner of a
called 22.726 acre tract conveyed to Brazoria County, as recorded
in Volume 1645, Page 879 of the Deed Records of Brazoria County, at
position X=3130865.35 and Y=476829.33
THENCE North 1°48'22" West, coincident with the east boundary line
of said called 22.726 acre tract, a distance of 4951.14 feet to a
set 5/8" iron rod with cap for the northeast corner of said called
22.726 acre tract, at position X=3130709.32 ad Y=481777.37;
THENCE North 87°21'12" East, coincident with the south boundary line
of a called 5.86 acre tract conveyed to Brazoria County, as recorded
in Clerk's File No. 00-015468 of the Brazoria County Official
Records and with the south boundary line of said called 94.573 acre
tract a distance of 1800.49 feet to the POINT OF BEGINNING,
containing 183.174 acres of land, more or less.
SECTION 3. EFFECTIVE DATE. 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, 2013.
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