ENROLLED
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
FOR
H. B. 2339
(By Mr. Speaker, Mr. Kiss, and Delegates Martin,
Varner, Michael, Staton, Douglas and Trump)
[Passed February 24, 1999; in effect from passage.]
AN ACT to repeal section four, article one, chapter twenty-five
of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred
thirty-one, as amended; and to amend and reenact section six
of said article, relating to authority over state
institutions; authorizing the commissioner of the West
Virginia division of corrections to lease the West Virginia
penitentiary in Moundsville.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That section four, article one, chapter twenty-five of the
code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as
amended, be repealed; and that section six of said article be
amended and reenacted to read as follows:
CHAPTER 25. DIVISION OF CORRECTIONS.
ARTICLE 1. ORGANIZATION AND INSTITUTIONS.
§25-1-6. Title to property of state institutions; custody of deeds
and other muniments of title; authority of commissioner.
The title to all property constituting or belonging to the
several institutions named in section three of this article is
vested in the state. The commissioner of corrections is custodian
of all deeds and other muniments of title and shall cause such as
are susceptible of recordation to be recorded in the proper
offices. The commissioner is authorized, as lessor, to lease the
West Virginia penitentiary in Moundsville, title to which is
vested in the state by prior enactment of this article, for a term
of not more than twenty-five years.