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2012 SESSION

12104461D
HOUSE BILL NO. 1224
Offered January 19, 2012
A BILL to authorize an exchange of real property controlled by the Department of Transportation; emergency.
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Patron-- Morefield
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Referred to Committee on Transportation
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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1.  § 1. That, notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Virginia Department of Transportation, with the approval of the Governor, is hereby authorized to convey that portion of a parcel of land bounded by Virginia Route 19, Virginia Route 1015, and Virginia Route 610 in Tazewell County no longer needed for highway rights-of-way or purposes incidental to the construction, reconstruction, maintenance, repair, or improvement of public highways to Steelsburg Properties, LLC in exchange for real property and such other consideration, as determined by the Department, necessary to render the property received by the Department suitable for use as an equipment shop facility and the total consideration received by the Department of comparable value to the property conveyed by the Department in exchange.

§ 2. The exchange, and all documentation pursuant thereto, shall be in a form approved by the Attorney General and shall not be subject to the provisions of § 2.2-1149 of the Code of 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 the exchange.

2.  That an emergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.