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SENATE BILL NO. 1083
AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE
(Proposed by the House Committee on General Laws
on February 15, 2007)
(Patron Prior to Substitute--Senator Puckett)
A BILL to authorize the Commonwealth to convey certain property in the County of Buchanan.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1.  § 1.  That the Commonwealth of Virginia is hereby authorized to convey in its "as is" condition, for the nominal monetary consideration of $1, with the approval of the Governor and in a form approved by the Attorney General, to the County of Buchanan, the former Virginia State Police Area Office property on State Route 83 near the area known as Vansant, Virginia, identified as parcel #193 on tax map 2HH-185, Insert A, and generally described as being 0.44 acres more or less with improvements thereon and situated in the Prater Magisterial District of Buchanan County, Virginia and shown as lots 5-11 on the N.W. Looney Subdivision, Plat Book 4, page 5 of record in the Circuit Court Clerk's office of Buchanan County, Virginia. The appropriate officials of the Commonwealth are hereby authorized to prepare, execute, and deliver such deed and other documents as may be necessary to accomplish such conveyance. The County of Buchanan shall (i) use such property primarily for government or law-enforcement purposes, (ii) pay all costs and expenses incurred in the transfer, and (iii) be responsible for the abatement, and related costs, of any currently existing environmental contamination on the property to the extent required by applicable law.  The deed shall provide that in the event the county transfers or conveys all or any portion of the property to any other person or entity or in the event the county ceases to use the property primarily for government or law-enforcement purposes its ownership shall cease and fee title to the entire property shall automatically revert to the Commonwealth.