FIRST REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 282

95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES STEVENSON (Sponsor), RUESTMAN, WILSON (130), FLANIGAN, EMERY AND RICHARD (Co-sponsors).

1049L.01I                                                                                                                                                  D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk

AN ACT

To authorize the conveyance of property owned by the state in Jasper County to Missouri Southern State University.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

            Section 1. 1. The governor is hereby authorized and empowered to sell, transfer, grant, convey, remise, release, and forever quitclaim all interest of the state of Missouri in real property known as the Joplin Regional Center, located in Jasper County, Joplin, Missouri, to Missouri Southern State University. The property to be conveyed is more particularly described as follows:

A tract of land lying in the Southwest Quarter (1/4) of the Southeast Quarter (1/4) of Section 31, Township 28, Range 32, Jasper County, Missouri, and described by the following metes and bounds: beginning at the Southwest corner of the above described Southwest Quarter (1/4) of the Southeast (1/4) of Section 31; thence North along the West line thereof 670.0 Feet; thence East with an angle of 90 degrees with the said West line 450.0 Feet to a point; thence South parallel to said West line 140.0 Feet; thence South 56 degrees East for a distance of 415.0 Feet to a point; thence South 290.0 Feet to the South line of said Southwest Quarter (1/4) of the Southeast Quarter (1/4); thence West along said South line 800.0 Feet to point of beginning, containing ten and two-tenths (10.2) acres, more or less, except a strip of land fifty feet wide East and West off of the West side thereof, the same being reserved for road purposes.

            2. The conveyance of the property described in this section shall not occur until the Joplin Regional Center is relocated from the property described in this section to different property.

            3. The commissioner of administration shall set the terms and conditions for the conveyance as the commissioner deems reasonable. Such terms and conditions may include, but are not limited to, the time, place, and terms of the conveyance.

            4. The attorney general shall approve the form of the instrument of conveyance.

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