Bill Text: TX HB2604 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the renewal and extension and modification of a 99-year lease of certain state property to the City of Austin.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-03-27 - Left pending in committee [HB2604 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB2604-Introduced.html
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By: Naishtat | H.B. No. 2604 |
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relating to the renewal and extension and modification of a 99-year | ||
lease of certain state property to the City of Austin. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Chapter 34 (H.B. 215), General Laws, Acts of the | ||
33rd Legislature, Regular Session, 1913, is amended by amending | ||
Section 2 and adding Sections 2A and 2B to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 2. That the State of Texas hereby cedes and grants to | ||
the City of Austin the plot or square of land described in Section 1 | ||
of the Act for a period of ninety-nine years beginning on August 15, | ||
2016, [ |
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municipal authorities, be and the same is hereby authorized and | ||
empowered to establish, operate and maintain upon the land | ||
described by Section 1 of this Act [ |
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municipal auditorium and market, in which auditorium, theatres, | ||
operas, concerts, lectures, fairs, shows and public exhibitions and | ||
entertainments generally can be conducted with or without pay; and | ||
in this market all kinds of produce may be bought and sold either in | ||
the open square or in a market house constructed thereon. | ||
Sec. 2A. (a) Subject to Section 2B of this Act, the State of | ||
Texas grants to the City of Austin for a period of 99 years | ||
beginning on August 15, 2016, a lease of the property described as | ||
follows: | ||
(1) Tract 1. Wooldridge Park. The northwest Public | ||
Square now known as Wooldridge Park, bounded on the north by | ||
Mulberry Street (now W. 10th Street), on the east by Guadalupe | ||
Street, on the south by Ash Street (now W. 9th Street), and on the | ||
west by San Antonio Street, and being 276 feet square, as delineated | ||
on the map titled "Plan of the City of Austin 1840" filed in the | ||
General Land Office; and | ||
(2) Tract 2. Brushy Park. The southeast Public Square | ||
now known as Brushy Park, bounded on the north by Pine Street (now | ||
E. 5th Street), on the east by Neches Street, on the south by Cedar | ||
Street (now E. 4th Street), and on the west by Trinity Street, and | ||
being 276 feet square as delineated on the map titled "Plan of the | ||
City of Austin 1840" filed in the General Land Office. | ||
(b) The City of Austin may only use the tracts described by | ||
Subsection (a) of this section as municipal parks in which: | ||
(1) theatres, operas, concerts, lectures, fairs, | ||
shows and public exhibitions and entertainments generally can be | ||
conducted with or without pay; and | ||
(2) produce may be bought and sold. | ||
Sec. 2B. (a) The [ |
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not by this Act part with any title, color of title or interest | ||
which it now owns in the property described in this Act [ |
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except as granted herein. | ||
(b) In the event, however, the City of Austin should fail to | ||
use the property [ |
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or (2) of this Act [ |
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that property [ |
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condition subsequent. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect August 15, 2016. |