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SENATE BILL NO. 471 Offered January 9, 2002 Prefiled January 9, 2002 A BILL to authorize the Commonwealth to convey certain lands to the City of Portsmouth. ---------- Patron-- Quayle ---------- Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice ----------

Whereas, the City of Portsmouth has planned redevelopment and reuse of its downtown waterfront and has reclaimed, or plans to reclaim, bulkheading and filling, and certain submerged land from the bed of the Elizabeth River in Portsmouth, Virginia abutting the property now, or formerly owned by it, and the City desires to perfect title to such reclaimed land by obtaining a conveyance thereof from the Commonwealth; now, therefore

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. § 1. The Governor is hereby authorized in consideration of the premises and the payment of the sum of one dollar to execute in the name of the Commonwealth a proper deed of conveyance under the lesser seal of the Commonwealth conveying unto the City of Portsmouth, Virginia, its successors or assigns all its right, title and interest, if any, in and to beds of the Elizabeth River described as property lying landward, and to the West, Southwest and South of a line more particularly identified as follows: beginning at a pierhead line station designated as S-5 located on the Western side of the Southern branch of the Elizabeth River in the City of Portsmouth, Virginia, 8.14 feet South of the Southern right-of-way line of High Street extended Eastward to its intersection with said river; thence from said point of beginning running South along said pierhead line following its various courses and distances to a point where said pierhead line intersects the Northern boundary line of property of the United States Government known as the Norfolk Ship Yard.

§ 2. The deeds of conveyance and other documents shall be in the form approved by the Attorney General.

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