85R12720 BEE-F By: Giddings H.B. No. 3761 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT relating to the transfer of certain state property from the Texas Board of Criminal Justice to the City of Dallas. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. (a) Not later than March 1, 2018, the Texas Board of Criminal Justice shall donate and transfer to the City of Dallas the real property described by Subsection (e) of this section. (b) The City of Dallas may use the property transferred under this Act only for a purpose that benefits the public interest of the state. If the City of Dallas uses the property for any purpose other than a purpose described by this subsection, ownership of the property automatically reverts to the Texas Board of Criminal Justice. (c) The Texas Board of Criminal Justice shall transfer the property by an appropriate instrument of transfer. The instrument of transfer must: (1) provide that: (A) the City of Dallas 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 Board of Criminal Justice if the City of Dallas 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 Board of Criminal Justice shall retain custody of the instrument of transfer after the instrument of transfer is filed in the real property records of Dallas County. (e) The real property referred to in this section is described as follows: Being a 0.907 acre tract of land located in the John Booman Survey, Abstract number 208, in the City of Dallas, Dallas County, Texas and being a part of Reunion Plaza and Addition to the City of Dallas, according to the plot in Volume 87040, Page 6347, Plat records of Dallas County, Texas more particularly described as follows: COMMENCING at a found HALFF ASSOC. Iron rod, for the northwest corner of said Reunion Plaza, and the southerly right-of-way line of Commerce Street (175' R.O.W.): THENCE N 76° 00'04" E along said southerly right-of-way 21.50 feet to a set pk nail in asphalt for the POINT OF BEGINNING of the herein described tract; THENCE N 76° 00'04" E continue along said southerly right-of-way 125.03 feet to a set pk nail in asphalt; THENCE S 15° 09'15" E, departing from said southerly right-of-way, 315.00 feet to a set pk nail in asphalt; THENCE S 74° 30'46" W, 125.00 feet to a set pk nail in asphalt; THENCE N 15° 09'15" W, 317.52 feet to the POINT OF BEGINNING, containing 0.907 Acres (39,534 square feet) of land more or less. 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, 2017.