Bill Text: MS HB889 | 2016 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Columbia Training School; authorize DFA to transfer of remaining property to Marion County Board of Supervisors.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2016-02-23 - Died In Committee [HB889 Detail]

Download: Mississippi-2016-HB889-Introduced.html

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MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE

2016 Regular Session

To: Public Property

By: Representative Morgan

House Bill 889

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION TO TRANSFER AND CONVEY CERTAIN REAL PROPERTY LOCATED AT COLUMBIA TRAINING SCHOOL IN MARION COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI, TO THE MARION COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.

     BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:

     SECTION 1.  (1)  The Department of Finance and Administration may transfer and convey to the Marion County Board of Supervisors certain real property located at Columbia Training School in Marion County, Mississippi.  The real property contains approximately one thousand seven hundred eighty (1,780) acres lying North of Highway 44 and is more particularly described as follows:

In Section 34, Township 4 North, Range 18 West, Marion County, Mississippi:

All that part of the NW 1/4 lying North of Mississippi Highway #44.

     Also, all that part of the NE 1/4 lying North of Mississippi #44.

In Section 27, Township 4 North, Range 18 West, Marion County, Mississippi:

     The W 1/2.

     The NE 1/4.

     The W 1/2 of the SE 1/4.

     The W 1/2 of the SE 1/4 of the SE 1/4.

In Section 28, Township 4 North, Range 18 West, Marion County, Mississippi:

     The E 1/2 of the NE 1/4.

In Section 22, Township 4 North, Range 18 West, Marion County, Mississippi:

     The E 1/2.

     The E 1/2 of the NW 1/4.

     The SW 1/4.

     The S 1/2 of the SW 1/4 of NW 1/4.

In Section 15, Township 4 North, Range 18 West, Marion County, Mississippi:

     Entire Section, less and except the W 1/4 thereof.

Containing 1,780 acres, more or less.

     (2)  The State of Mississippi shall retain any mineral rights to the property transferred and conveyed under subsection (1) of this section.

     (3)  The property conveyed under subsection (1) of this section must be conveyed to the board without any assumption of liability or financial responsibility by the State of Mississippi for any known or unknown environmental defects contained thereon.  Upon receipt of the deed of title to the property, the board shall indemnify the State of Mississippi for any damage, injury or loss.  However, the board may harvest and sell any timber located on the property and may use the revenue generated from those sales to fund the costs associated with removal and containment of any environmental defects located thereon.  Any revenue remaining from the sale of timber after all environmental clean-up costs have been paid must be deposited into the general fund treasury of Marion County to be expended for any and all purposes deemed necessary by the board.

     SECTION 2.  This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.