MISSISSIPPIAdopted LEGISLATUREAMENDMENT REGULARNO SESSION1 2025PROPOSED By:TO House Bill No.

Representative1436 BennettBY: To:

PublicRepresentative PropertyBurch HOUSEAmend BILLafter NO.34 by inserting the following as a new section:

1436 (As Passed the House) AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION, ACTING ON BEHALF OF THE MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, TO TRANSFER AND CONVEY TO THE CITY OF GULFPORT, MISSISSIPPI, CERTAIN PARCELS OF LAND SITUATED IN GULFPORT, MISSISSIPPI, AT THE INTERSECTIONS OF 13TH STREET AND 28TH AVENUE AND 15TH STREET AND 28TH AVENUE;

TO AMEND SECTION 1, LAWS OF 2024, TO CORRECT THE METHOD BY WHICH THE MISSISSIPPI TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION, ACTING ON BEHALF OF THE MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, IS AUTHORIZED TO CONVEY A CERTAIN PARCEL OF LAND SITUATED IN GREENE COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI, WHICH IS ADJACENT TO THE OLD HIGHWAY 63 CHICKASAWHAY RIVER BRIDGE, TO THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF GREENE COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI, BY MEANS OF DONATION;

AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:

SECTION 1.

(1) The State Highway Commission, acting on behalf of the Mississippi Department of Transportation, is authorized to transfer to the City of Gulfport, Mississippi, certain real property and any improvements thereon located in Gulfport, Mississippi, and being more particularly described as follows:

(a) The Northwest Quadrant of the intersection of 13th Street and 28th Avenue in the City of Gulfport, Harrison H.

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1436 *HR31/R2108PH* ~ OFFICIAL ~ G2/3 25/HR31/R2108PH PAGE 1 (DJ\JAB) County, Mississippi, including Lots 15 through 19 in Block 176 of Original Gulfport;

and (b) The Southwest Quadrant of the intersection of 15th Street and 28th Avenue in the City of Gulfport, Harrison County, Mississippi, including Lots 1 through 6 in Block 176 of Original Gulfport.

(2) Of the property described in subsection (1) of this section, it is hereby understood and agreed by the City of Gulfport, Mississippi, as the grantee herein named, that all existing utilities located on, under or above the property herein described, shall remain at the discretion of the utility owners, and that the grantee, its assigns or successors in the title will not require the relocation of these utilities except by agreement with the utility owner.

(3) The State of Mississippi shall retain all mineral rights to the real property transferred under this section.

(4) The Mississippi Department of Transportation is authorized to correct any discrepancies in the legal description of the property provided in this section.

(1) The Mississippi Transportation Commission, acting on behalf of the Mississippi Department of Transportation, is authorized to * * * donate to the Board of Supervisors of Greene County, a certain parcel of land situated in Greene County, H.where the Chickasawhay River Bridge was once located, for the purpose of declaring the tract of land surplus property and restoring it to the local tax rolls, as it is better suited for private ownership.

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1436 *HR31/R2108PH* ~ OFFICIAL ~ 25/HR31/R2108PH PAGE 2(DJ\JAB) where the Chickasawhay River Bridge was once located, for the purpose of declaring the tract of land surplus property and restoring it to the local tax rolls, as it is better suited for private ownership.

That portion of Old Highway 63 in Section 12, Township 2 North, Range 6 West more particularly described as being 25/HR35/HB1436A.J *HR35/HB1436A.J* P(DJ)1 200 feet in total width (100 feet left of centerline and 100 feet right of centerline) beginning at station number 60+30 depicted in the plans of MDOT Project BR- 1132-(3)A.

(b) This conveyance by donation is subject to the provisions that no junkyards, as defined in 23 USCS Section 136, shall be hereafter established or maintained on or above-described lands, and no signs, billboards, outdoor advertising structures or advertisement of any kind, as provided for in 23 USCS Section 131, H.shall be hereafter erected, displayed, placed or maintained upon or within the above-described land, except that signs may be erected and maintained to advertise the sale, hire or lease of the property, or principal activities conducted on the land upon which the signs are located.

B.25/HR35/HB1436A.J *HR35/HB1436A.J* P(DJ)2 (3) The State of Mississippi shall retain all mineral rights to the real property transferred by means of donation under this section.

No.(4) The Mississippi Department of Transportation is authorized to correct any discrepancies in the legal description of the property provided in this section." Further amend by renumbering the succeeding section accordingly.

1436Further *HR31/R2108PH*amend ~ OFFICIAL ~ 25/HR31/R2108PH PAGE 3(DJ\JAB) shall be hereafter erected, displayed, placed or maintained upon or within the above-describedtitle land, except that signs may be erected and maintained to advertiseconform theon sale,line hire6 orby leaseinserting of the property,following orafter principal activities conducted on the landsemicolon: upon which the signs are located.

(3)"TO TheAMEND StateSECTION of1, MississippiLAWS shallOF retain2024, allTO mineralCORRECT rightsTHE toMETHOD theBY realWHICH propertyTHE transferredMISSISSIPPI byTRANSPORTATION meansCOMMISSION, ofACTING donationON underBEHALF thisOF section.THE MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, IS AUTHORIZED TO CONVEY A CERTAIN PARCEL OF LAND SITUATED IN GREENE COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI, WHICH IS ADJACENT TO THE OLD HIGHWAY 63 CHICKASAWHAY RIVER BRIDGE, TO THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF GREENE COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI, BY MEANS OF DONATION;".

(4)25/HR35/HB1436A.J The*HR35/HB1436A.J* MississippiP(DJ)3 Department of Transportation is authorized to correct any discrepancies in the legal description of the property provided in this section.

SECTION 3.

This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

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authorize to transfer property in PAGE 4(DJ\JAB) Harrison County to the City of Gulfport.