Bill Text: TX HB1617 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to authorizing certain real property transactions involving the Department of Public Safety of the State of Texas.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-17 - Effective immediately [HB1617 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB1617-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 1617 | ||
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| relating to authorizing certain real property transactions | ||
| involving the Department of Public Safety of the State of Texas. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. (a) Subject to Subsections (b) and (c) of this | ||
| section, the Department of Public Safety of the State of Texas may | ||
| convey the real property described by Section 2 of this Act to the | ||
| First United Pentecostal Church, Center, Texas, in exchange for the | ||
| real property described by Section 3 of this Act conveyed by the | ||
| First United Pentecostal Church to the Department of Public Safety | ||
| of the State of Texas. | ||
| (b) The real property described by Section 2 of this Act may | ||
| not be conveyed by the Department of Public Safety of the State of | ||
| Texas to the First United Pentecostal Church unless the fair market | ||
| value of the real property described by Section 3 of this Act is | ||
| equal to or greater than the fair market value of the real property | ||
| described by Section 2 of this Act. The fair market value of the | ||
| real property must be established by an independent appraisal | ||
| obtained by the asset management division of the General Land | ||
| Office. | ||
| (c) In connection with the conveyance of the real property | ||
| described by Section 2 of this Act, the state shall reserve: | ||
| (1) the state's interest in all oil, gas, and other | ||
| minerals in and under the real property described by Section 2 of | ||
| this Act; | ||
| (2) the state's right to remove from the real property | ||
| described by Section 2 of this Act any oil, gas, and other minerals | ||
| in and under the real property; and | ||
| (3) the state's right to grant a lease held by the | ||
| state before a conveyance of the real property described by Section | ||
| 2 of this Act relating to the removal of oil, gas, and other | ||
| minerals in and under the real property. | ||
| (d) The Department of Public Safety of the State of Texas | ||
| and the First United Pentecostal Church, Center, Texas, shall each | ||
| reimburse the General Land Office for an amount equal to one-half of | ||
| the fees and expenses incurred by the General Land Office in | ||
| connection with each conveyance of real property under this Act. | ||
| (e) Sections 31.1571, 31.158, and 31.159, Natural Resources | ||
| Code, do not apply to the exchange of real property authorized by | ||
| this Act. | ||
| SECTION 2. The real property held by the Department of | ||
| Public Safety of the State of Texas is land being situated in Shelby | ||
| County, Texas, and more particularly described as follows: | ||
| BEING 3.167 acres of land, more or less, out of the J. AMASON | ||
| Survey, Abstract No. 10, in Shelby County, Texas, and also being a | ||
| portion of and the same tract as described in a deed to the State of | ||
| Texas acting through the State Highway Commission from Dr. J. M. | ||
| Rogers and wife Cora M. Rogers, dated April 19, 1950, recorded in | ||
| Volume 292, Page 513, Deed Records of Shelby County, Texas; said | ||
| 3.167 acres of land, more or less, is more particularly described by | ||
| metes and bounds as follows, to-wit: | ||
| BEGINNING at a junction of the East right of way line of the | ||
| new location of U. S. Highway 96 and the line between the tract | ||
| herein conveyed and a tract owned by L. F. Holder. Said junction | ||
| being N 74 deg. 16 min. E, 61.00 feet from Centerline Station | ||
| 2481+39 of said U. S. Highway 96; | ||
| THENCE N 74 deg. 16 min. E, along said Holder line, 226.60 | ||
| feet to a point for a corner, said point being the Northwest corner | ||
| of Mrs. Katheryn Walker's 2 acre tract; | ||
| THENCE S 13 deg. 02 min. E, along the West boundary line of | ||
| Mrs. Katheryn Walker and of the Stalling place 446.00 feet to a | ||
| point for a corner, said point being the Southwest corner of the | ||
| Stalling place; | ||
| THENCE S 18 deg. 44 min. W, 175.00 feet along fence to a point | ||
| for corner; | ||
| THENCE S 07 deg. 33 min. W, 81.00 feet along fence to a point | ||
| for a corner on Ewell Samford's North boundary line; | ||
| THENCE N 68 deg. 03 min. W, 154.99 feet along said Samford's | ||
| North line, to a point for a corner on the East right of way line of | ||
| said U. S. Highway 96, said point being S 68 deg. 03 min. E, 75.00 | ||
| feet from Centerline Station 2476+18 of said highway; | ||
| THENCE N 10 deg. 54 min. W, 571.5 feet along the East right of | ||
| way line of said Highway to the place of beginning. | ||
| Said tract containing 3.167 acres of land. | ||
| SECTION 3. The real property held by the First United | ||
| Pentecostal Church is: | ||
| All that certain tract of land situated in Shelby County, | ||
| Texas, in the JESSE AMASON SURVEY, A-10, being all that land | ||
| conveyed from B. H. McCoy & wife, Archie Myrl McCoy to First United | ||
| Pentecostal Church in Center, Texas, Inc. and recorded in Volume | ||
| 561 Page 745 of the Deed Records of Shelby County, Texas, and being | ||
| more particularly described as follows. | ||
| Note: in the following description | ||
| Bearings refer to Grid North of the Texas Coordinate System of 1983 | ||
| (Central Zone 4203). | ||
| BEGINNING at a 5/8" Iron Rod set with cap stamped "FSE | ||
| ENGINEERING CENTER, TX" from which a Concrete Right-of-Way marker | ||
| bears S 28° 16' 09" E a distance of 466.04 feet, said 5/8" Iron Rod | ||
| also being the southwest corner of this property; | ||
| THENCE N 14° 21' 20" W with east right-of-way of U.S. Highway | ||
| 96 a distance of 400.00 feet to a 5/8" Iron Rod set with cap stamped | ||
| "FSE ENGINEERING CENTER, TX"; | ||
| THENCE N 71° 36' 30" E with the south line of the SECOND TRACT | ||
| conveyed to Lowell C. Hufferd and recorded in Volume 948 Page 608 of | ||
| the Official Public Records of Shelby County, Texas, at 308.20 feet | ||
| pass a 5/8" Iron Rod set for reference with cap stamped "FSE | ||
| ENGINEERING CENTER, TX" and at a total distance of 324.18 feet to a | ||
| point for corner in the centerline of County Road 2205; | ||
| THENCE S 19° 29' 22" E with the centerline of County Road 2205 | ||
| a distance of 300.00 feet to a point for corner from which a 5/8" | ||
| Iron Rod set for reference with cap stamped "FSE ENGINEERING | ||
| CENTER, TX" bears S 56° 08' 40" W a distance of 30.29 feet; | ||
| THENCE S 56° 08' 40" W with the north line of a called 0.41 | ||
| acre tract conveyed to Harold Bennet and recorded in Volume 1080 | ||
| Page 103 of the Official Public Records of Shelby County, Texas, and | ||
| the north line of a called 3.5108 acre tract conveyed to Thomas | ||
| Howard and recorded in Volume 800 Page 652 of the Real Property | ||
| Records of Shelby County, Texas, a distance of 371.53 feet to the | ||
| Point of Beginning being 2.724 acres more or less. | ||
| SECTION 4. 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, 2015. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 1617 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 16, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 143, Nays 1, 2 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 1617 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 26, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
