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.