ENROLLED
Senate Bill No. 728
(By Senator Deem)
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[Passed April 14, 2001; in effect ninety days from passage.]
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AN ACT to transfer land located in Lubeck District, Wood County,
West Virginia, from the state of West Virginia to Wood County
commission for the use and benefit of the county commission
for the purpose of developing a park.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
LAND TRANSFER TO WOOD COUNTY COMMISSION.
The state of West Virginia is authorized to transfer to the
county commission of Wood County, West Virginia, without
consideration, all of those two certain lots, tracts or parcels of
land, together with the improvements thereon, the privileges
thereof and the appurtenances thereunto belonging, situate the
district of Lubeck, in Wood County, West Virginia, and being more
particularly bounded and described as follows:
Beginning at a concrete monument in the southerly right-of-way line of State Route 95 where the same intersects the easterly
right-of-way line of the access road to the within described real
estate; thence with the southerly right-of-way line of said Route
95 the following four calls and distances: N. 74 degrees 47' E.
164 feet to an iron pin; S. 84 degrees 10' E. 229 feet to an iron
pin; N. 88 degrees 36' E. 161.80 feet to an iron pin; thence N. 45
degrees 26' E. 228 feet, to the intersection of the westerly right-
of-way line of Bradley Avenue; thence with the westerly right-of-
way line of Bradley Avenue the following two calls and distances:
S. 55 degrees 26' E. 306.40 feet to an iron pin; S. 56 degrees 32'
E. 252.89 feet to a concrete monument in the westerly right-of-way
line of said Bradley Avenue; thence leaving Bradley Avenue, S. 26
degrees 00' W. 577.70 feet to an iron pin; thence N. 84 degrees 46'
W. 476.90 feet, passing an iron pin at 446.90 feet, to the
centerline of said access road; thence with the centerline of said
access road three calls and distances: N. 18 degrees 46' W. 45
feet; N. 42 degrees 38' W. 100 feet; N. 46 degrees 58' W. 220.20
feet; thence N. 43 degrees 02' E. 85 feet to a concrete monument in
the easterly right-of-way line of said access road; thence with the
easterly right-of-way line of said access road N. 40 degrees 44' W.
184.11 feet to a concrete monument; and, N. 21 degrees 40' W.
216.46 feet to the place of beginning, containing 14.45 acres. as shown and described in a survey made by James F. Debrular, dated
April 20, 1980, a plat of which survey is duly of record in the
office of the Clerk of the County Commission of Wood County, West
Virginia in Deed Book 738 at page No. 191 therein, to which plat
reference is here made for a more particular description of the
property to be conveyed herein. There is also included in the
property authorized to be conveyed herein, that certain real
estate, being a section of land sixty feet in width, running from
the 14.45 acre tract above described through and bounded by other
lands of the previous grantor of the property authorized to be
conveyed herein and returning to the aforementioned 14.45 acre
tract, which section of land appears on the above mentioned survey
and is identified thereon as "60' right-of-way" to which survey
reference is hereby made for a more particular description of said
land. Any conveyance of this said section of land shall be made
subject to a perpetual and nonexclusive right-of-way and easement
over, through and across said section of land for the purposes of
ingress, egress and regress to and from other lands of the previous
grantor of the property authorized to be conveyed herein, namely:
Nemesis Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic
Shrine, Parkersburg, West Virginia, its grantees, assigns or
successors in title and subject to the right to cross over or under said strip of land for the purpose of connecting or extending
utilities previously reserved by the aforesaid previous grantor of
the property authorized to be conveyed herein.
Being the same real property conveyed by deed dated May 20,
1980, from S. William Goff, James H. Carr and James W. Deem,
Trustees for Nemesis Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of
the Mystic Shrine, Parkersburg, West Virginia, to the state of West
Virginia, for the use and benefit of the Blennerhasset Historical
Park Commission, which deed is of record in the Office of the Clerk
of the County Commission of Wood County, West Virginia, in Deed
Book 738, at page 189. Reference to said deed and map is here made
for all pertinent purposes.
The state of West Virginia expressly reserves from this
conveyance all artifacts located, found or discovered upon said
real estate to be conveyed herein and the County Commission of Wood
County, West Virginia agrees, by the acceptance of this conveyance,
to deliver any artifacts found or discovered on the property to the
Blennerhassett Island Historical State Park Museum.
This conveyance is subject to any and all reservations,
restrictions, and rights-of-way or easements of record.
This conveyance is and shall be made upon the express
condition that the property shall be used by the County Commission of Wood County, West Virginia to develop and maintain a public park
area. If the property is used for any other purpose or is
abandoned by the Commission, then the ownership of the property
shall revert to the state of West Virginia.
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