Bill Text: MS HB895 | 2012 | Regular Session | Enrolled
Bill Title: Public Property; authorize DFA to donate certain property in Lauderdale County to Meridian Community College.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Enrolled - Dead) 2012-04-10 - Due From Governor 04/16/12 [HB895 Detail]
Download: Mississippi-2012-HB895-Enrolled.html
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2012 Regular Session
To: Public Property
By: Representative Snowden
House Bill 895
(As Sent to Governor)
AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION, ACTING ON BEHALF OF THE MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY, TO DONATE TO MERIDIAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE IN MERIDIAN, MISSISSIPPI, CERTAIN REAL PROPERTY AND ANY IMPROVEMENTS THEREON UNDER THE POSSESSION AND CONTROL OF THE MISSISSIPPI HIGHWAY PATROL, LOCATED IN THE CITY OF MERIDIAN, LAUDERDALE COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. (1) The Department of Finance and Administration, acting on behalf of the Mississippi Department of Public Safety, is authorized to donate and convey to Meridian Community College, certain real property and any improvements thereon, located at 841 Highway 19 North, in the City of Meridian, Lauderdale County, Mississippi, currently occupied by the Mississippi Highway Patrol, Troop H, and more particularly described as follows:
Commencing at the SW corner of the SE 1/4 of the NE 1/4 of Section 14, Township 6 North, Range 15 East, Meridian, Lauderdale County, Mississippi; thence East 34.00 feet to a point; thence North 30.00 feet to an iron pin set at the intersection of the Northern right-of-way of Valley Street and the Eastern right-of-way of 53rd Avenue, and said pin being the Point of Beginning of the herein described parcel of land; thence with said Eastern right-of-way of 53rd Avenue run North 00 degrees 38 minutes 07 seconds West 692.38 feet, more or less, passing an iron pin found at 349.96 feet to an iron pin set on the Southern right-of-way of Mississippi Highway 19; thence leaving said 53rd Avenue and with the right-of-way of Highway 19, run south 72 degrees 55 minutes 04 seconds East 259.34 feet along said Southern right-of-way of Mississippi Highway 19, passing a right-of-way monument found at 205.27 feet and an iron pin found at 211.22 feet to an iron pin set; thence South 17 degrees 05 minutes 07 seconds West 15.00 feet to an iron pin set; thence South 72 degrees 54 minutes 53 seconds East 150.00 feet to a right-of-way monument found (disturbed); thence North 17 degrees 22 minutes 07 seconds East 25.00 feet to a right-of-way monument on the South right-of-way of Mississippi Highway 19; thence South 73 degrees 03 minutes 29 seconds East 315.62 feet along said Southern right-of-way passing a right-of-way monument found at 284.85 feet to an iron pin set; thence along a curve to the right on the South right-of-way of Mississippi Highway 19 472.42 feet, said curve having a radius of 323.03 feet and a chord bearing and distance of South 31 degrees 09 minutes 42 seconds East 431.43 feet to a right-of-way monument on the Western
right-of-way of said Highway 19 and Highway 11; thence along said Highway 11 right-of-way South 10 degrees 44 minutes 05 seconds West 117.47 feet to an iron pin set on the Northern right-of-way of Valley Street; thence with said Northern right-of-way of Valley Street South 89 degrees 40 minutes 30 seconds West 889.65 feet, more or less, to the Point of Beginning and being a part of the SE 1/4 of the NE 1/4 of Section 14, Township 6 North, Range 15 East, Meridian, Lauderdale County, Mississippi and containing 11.36 acres, more or less.
LESS AND EXCEPT THEREFROM the 3.9 acres, more or less, in the SW portion of the above described property presently being occupied by the Lauderdale County Health and Human Services Complex, and being more particularly described in that certain May 5, 1986 LEASE AGREEMENT appearing within Book 1047 at Page 195 among the land records in the Office of the Chancery Clerk of Lauderdale County, Mississippi; and, the 1.50 acres, more or less, in the North portion of the above described property owned by the Meridian Community College, and being more particularly described in that certain June 23, 2006 WARRANTY DEED appearing in Book 2165 at Page 461 among the land records in the Office of the Chancery Clerk of Lauderdale County, Mississippi; and, the 4.50 acres, more or less, in the South and Easterly portion of the above described property owned by the Meridian Community College, and being more particularly described in that certain October 10, 2006 WARRANTY DEED appearing in Book 2176 at Page 490 among the land records in the Office of the Chancery Clerk of Lauderdale County, Mississippi.
(2) If at any time after the donation of the real property described in subsection (1) of this section Meridian Community College, ceases to use the real property for the purposes intended at the time of donation, the college shall forfeit its rights, title and interest in the real property, and all of the rights, title and interest in the real property shall revert back to the State of Mississippi.
(3) The State of Mississippi shall retain all mineral rights to the real property donated under this section.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.
