87R5681 MWC-D
By: Perry S.B. No. 510
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the transfer of certain state property from the Texas
Department of Criminal Justice to Stephens County.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. (a) As soon as practicable, the Texas Department
of Criminal Justice shall transfer to Stephens County the real
property interests of the State of Texas and the department in the
tract of land described by Subsection (f) of this section.
(b) Stephens County may use the property transferred under
this Act only for a purpose that benefits the public. If Stephens
County uses the property for any purpose other than a purpose
described by this subsection, ownership of the property
automatically reverts to the State of Texas.
(c) The Texas Department of Criminal Justice shall transfer
the property by an appropriate instrument of transfer. The
instrument of transfer must:
(1) provide that:
(A) Stephens County may use the property only for
a purpose that benefits the public; and
(B) ownership of the property will automatically
revert to the State of Texas if Stephens 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 Department of Criminal Justice shall retain
custody of the instrument of transfer after the instrument of
transfer is filed in the real property records of Stephens County.
(e) Sections 31.158 and 31.159, Natural Resources Code, do
not apply to the transfer of real property authorized by this Act.
(f) The tract of land referred to in this section is
described as follows:
A 402.36 acre tract of land out of TE&L Co. Survey No. 1177,
Abstract No. 1948 and A.B.&M. Survey No. 2, Abstract No. 1586 in
Stephens County, Texas further described by metes and bounds as
follows:
BEGINNING at a 1/2" steel pin in a road being the Southwest corner
of said Survey No. 1177;
THENCE North 89 degrees 52 minutes 14 seconds East 50.00 feet with
the south line of said survey to a 1/2" steel pin being the
Southwest corner of a 0.95 acre tract;
THENCE North 0 degrees 10 minutes 16 seconds West 275.00 feet to a
1/2" steel pin being the northwest corner of a 0.95 acre tract;
THENCE North 89 degrees 52 minutes 14 seconds East 150.00 feet to a
1/2" steel pin being the northeast corner of a 0.95 acre tract;
THENCE South 0 degrees 10 minutes 16 seconds East 275.00 feet to a
1/2" steel pin in the south line of said Survey No. 1177 and being
the southeast corner of a 0.95 acre tract;
THENCE North 89 degrees 52 minutes 14 seconds East 3536.23 feet to a
1/2" steel pin being the southeast corner of said survey No. 1177;
THENCE North 1913.18 feet with the east line of said Survey No. 1177
to a 1/2" steel pin being the northwest corner of a 6.10 acre tract;
THENCE East 1897.55 feet to a 1/2" steel pin being the northeast
corner of the said 6.10 acre tract and being in the east line of A.B. &
M. Survey No. 2;
THENCE North 1114.50 feet with the east line of said Survey No. 2 to
a 1/2" steel pin;
THENCE North 0 degrees 45 minutes 25 seconds East 747.17 feet with
the east line of said Survey No. 2 to a 1/2" steel pin;
THENCE South 89 degrees 36 minutes 38 seconds West 5654.96 feet to a
1/2" steel pin being the northwest corner of said Survey No. 1177;
THENCE South 0 degrees 10 minutes 16 seconds East 3744.81 feet with
the west line of said Survey No. 1177 to the place of beginning;
SAVE AND EXCEPT a 0.52 acre tract described by metes and bounds as
follows:
BEGINNING at a 1/2" steel pin being South 0 degrees 10 minutes 16
seconds East 1943.17 feet and East 50.00 feet from the northwest
corner of said Survey;
THENCE East 150.00 feet to a 1/2" steel pin;
THENCE South 0 degrees 10 minutes 16 seconds East 150.00 feet to a
1/2" steel pin;
THENCE West 150.00 feet to a 1/2" steel pin;
THENCE North 0 degrees 10 minutes 16 seconds West 150.00 feet to the
place of beginning.
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, 2021.