Art. 5421k-2. SUBMERGED RIGHT-OF-WAY ACROSS CAYO DEL OSO IN NUECES COUNTY, CONVEYANCE TO STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION.
Sec. 1. In order that the Texas Transportation Commission may have title to and control of the more or less submerged right of way necessary for the construction, reconstruction and maintenance of the Causeway and its Approaches across Cayo del Oso in Nueces County, as described in Section 2 of this Act, and as shown on the right-of-way map on file in the Texas Department of Transportation at Austin, Texas, and entitled Project ARMR 5A(1) Control 617-1-1, State Highway No. 358, Nueces County, from U. S. Naval Air Base on Encinal Peninsula to Junction with State Highway No. 286, the State hereby conveys to the Texas Transportation Commission title to and control of the submerged right of way described in Section 2 of this Act, and as shown on the right-of-way map above stated, but no part of this Act is to be construed so as to interfere nor conflict with the rights and authority of the Parks and Wildlife Commission, except that the Texas Transportation Commission shall have the full right and authority to take and use, at any time and in any quantity desired, any and all materials within the limits of this tract, and is exempted from the payment of any and all materials taken therefrom;  provided, however, that all mineral rights, together with the right to explore for and develop same by directional drilling are reserved to the State of Texas.
Sec. 2. The conveyance hereby made shall consist of a tract of more or less submerged land and tidewater flats, situated under the waters of Cayo del Oso between Engineers centerline Station 130 + 32.8 and Station 169 + 54.0 of State Highway No. 358, said tract being a strip of land 1000 feet wide, 500 feet on each side of the centerline of this right-of-way survey which extends from the Flour Bluff Naval Station to Junction with State Highway No. 286, 3.65 miles south of Corpus Christi, said tract extending for a distance of 3921.2 feet, the centerline being more particularly described as follows:
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Acts 1957, 55th Leg., p. 16, ch. 12.
Sec. 1 amended by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 22(17), eff. Sept. 1, 1995.