ENGROSSED

COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE

FOR

Senate Bill No. 668

(By Senators Jackson, Tomblin, Mr. President, and Ross)

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[Originating in the Committee on Government Organization;

reported March 3, 1998.]

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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 three-a, relating to authorizing southern West Virginia community and technical college to sell its property in Madison; and depositing the moneys in its special revenue account.

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 three-a, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 14. MISCELLANEOUS.

§18B-14-3a. Southern West Virginia community and technical college; authorization to sell Boone County property.

(a) Notwithstanding section three of this article, southern West Virginia community and technical college, with the approval of the board of directors of the state college system, is authorized to solicit interest in, enter into a contract for sale, sell and convey, for good and valuable consideration as negotiated by the board, the following three parcels of land bounded and described as follows:
(1) Tract No. One (Boone County campus building and lot) -- That certain lot or parcel of land together with the building thereon known as the Southern West Virginia Community and Technical College, situate in Madison, Scott District, Boone County, and described as: Beginning on 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 (70) 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 (70) feet to the line of said Main Street; thence with the line of Main Street a distance of seventy (70) feet to the place of the beginning.
The said parcel of land with the building thereon (former Hunter and Hunter Funeral Home), as described above, has a frontage of seventy (70) 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; and is the upper or southern seventy (70) foot part and portion of the lot.
(2) Tract No. Two (Parking lot toward the city of Madison) -- That certain lot or parcel of land situate in Madison, Scott District, Boone County, and described as: 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, which deed is dated September 16, 1924, and is recorded in the office of the Clerk of the County Commission of Boone County in Deed Book 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 December 27, 1945, and is recorded in said Clerk's office in Deed Book 74, at page 386; thence leaving Main Street and running with the lower line of said 70 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 described in the first deed above referred to; thence with 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.
The above described tracts, numbers one and two, were recorded on December 13, 1983, in Boone County Deed Book 171, at page 564.
(3) Tract No. Three (Other parking lot) -- That certain lot or parcel of land situate in Madison, Scott District, Boone County, and described as: 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 (60) 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 (60) 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 (60) feet therefrom, to a stake on the line of Main street; thence up and with the line of Main street a distance of sixty feet to the place of beginning; making the lot hereby conveyed sixty (60) feet wide, fronting on Main Street, and extending the entire distance from the said street to the said railway right-of-way line.
The above described tract number three, was conveyed in undivided interests, which transfers were recorded on December 2, 1988, in Boone County Deed Book 188, at pages 165, 168 and 171.
(b) The proceeds from the sale shall be deposited in a southern West Virginia community and technical college special revenue account from which the board of directors of the state college system is hereby authorized to expend the funds therefrom for the purchase of or improvement to real property and for furnishings associated with the purchase of or improvement to real property at southern West Virginia community and technical college.