Senate Bill No. 668
(By Senators Jackson, Tomblin, Mr. President and Ross)
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[Introduced February 23, 1998; referred to the
Committee on Government Organization; and then to the Committee
on Finance.]
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A BILL to amend article fourteen, chapter eighteen-b of the code
of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as
amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated section
seven, relating to authorizing southern West Virginia
community college, with the approval of the board of
directors, to sell property; and providing that the proceeds
from the sale be deposited into a special revenue account to
be used for the purchase of or improvement to real property
and for furnishings associated with the improvement to real
property.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That article fourteen, chapter eighteen-b of the code of
West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended,
be amended by adding thereto a new section, designated section seven, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 14. MISCELLANEOUS.
§18B-14-7. Southern West Virginia Community College; authorization to sell certain property.
(a) Notwithstanding section three of this article, Southern
West Virginia Community College is authorized to sell the
following three parcels of land bounded and described as follows:
(1) Boone campus building and lot -- beginning at a stake in
the line of Main Street at the upper or southern front corner of
the lot conveyed by the deed from Lewis Hubbard Corporation;
thence down the hill with the upper or southern side line of said
Lewis Hubbard Corporation lot to the right-of-way line of the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company; thence in the direction of
down the river with said right-of-way line and a portion of the
rear line of said Lewis Hubbard Corporation lot a distance of
seventy feet to a stake; thence up the hill through said Lewis
Hubbard Corporation lot by a line paralleling the first line
above described, and a uniform distance therefrom of seventy
feet to the line of said Main Street; thence with the line of
Main Street a distance of seventy feet to the place of the
beginning.
The parcel of land with the building (former Hunter and Hunter
Funeral Home) described has a frontage of seventy feet on said Main Street, with a rear or railway right-of-way line of the same
length, and extends from the line of Main Street to the said
right-of-way line.
(2) Parking lot toward the city of Madison -- beginning on
Main Street on the lower line of a 27 ½ foot lot described in a
deed to W.T. Hunter from M.A. Gore and wife, and recorded in the
office of the clerk of the county court of Boone County in deed
book number 27, at page 381, thence up and with the line of Main
Street a distance of 57 ½ feet, more or less, to the lower line
of a lot with a frontage of 70 feet and described in a deed dated
the twenty-seventh day of December, one thousand nine hundred
forty-five, and recorded in said clerk's office in deed book
number 74 at page 386; thence leaving Main Street and running
with the lower line of said seventy foot lot described in the
deed last above referred to, to the right-of-way line of the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company; thence in the direction of
down the river with said right-of-way line to the lower line of
said 27 ½ foot lot to the place of the beginning, making a parcel
of land with a frontage of 57 ½ feet, more or less, and extending
from the said Main Street to the said railroad right-of-way line.
(3) Other parking lot - beginning on a corner of the lot owned
at the time of his death by W.P. Croft just below the old frame
store building in which he formerly conducted a retail mercantile
business; thence running a straight line to a stake on the right of way of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company; said stake
being in the direction of up the river a distance of sixty feet
above the corner of the lot formerly owned by R.G. Hubbard, later
by Lewis Hubbard and Company and later owned by Hunter and
Hunter; thence down and with said railway right-of-way a distance
of sixty feet to the upper corner of the said Hunter and Hunter
lot; thence running parallel with the first line above described,
and a uniform distance of sixty feet wide, fronting on Main
Street, and extending the entire distance from the said street to
the said railway right-of-way line. Said land is shown on that
certain map attached hereto and made part hereof, to which
reference is made for a more particular description of the land
hereby conveyed.
(b) The net proceeds from the sale shall be deposited in a
special revenue account to be used for the purchase of or
improvement to real property and for furnishings associated with
the improvement to real property.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Southern
West Virginia Community College to sell three parcels of land.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from
the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that
would be added.