CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                   SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1016

                        55th Legislature

                      1997 Regular Session

Passed by the House February 3, 1997   Yeas 97   Nays 0 Speaker of the       House of Representatives Passed by the Senate April 7, 1997   Yeas 47   Nays 0

CERTIFICATE I, Timothy A. Martin, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1016  as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

President of the Senate

Chief Clerk

Approved Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

FILED

Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                   State of Washington

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                    SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1016

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             Passed Legislature - 1997 Regular Session

State of Washington      55th Legislature     1997 Regular Session

By House Committee on Capital Budget (originally sponsored by Representatives Schoesler, Honeyford, McMorris, Carlson, Boldt, Mason, Sheahan, Buck, Ogden, Huff, Grant, Chandler and Clements; by request of Washington State University)

Read first time 01/28/97.

Transferring property to Washington State University Lind dryland research unit. 

    AN ACT Relating to transferring Lind property to Washington State University; and creating a new section.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. (1) The Washington state treasury has been named a devisee of certain property pursuant to a will executed by Cleora Neare on July 14, 1982.  Under RCW 79.01.612, property that has been devised to the state is to be managed and controlled by the department of natural resources.  The legislature hereby finds that it is in the best interest of the state to transfer part of the real property devised to the state under the will to Washington State University for use in conjunction with the Washington State University Lind dryland research unit located in Adams county and sell the remaining property for the benefit of the common schools.

    (2) Washington State University is hereby granted ownership, management, and control of the real property legally described as all of Section 6, and the west half of Section 5, Township 17, Range 34 East E.W.M., Adams county, Washington, upon close of probate, or sooner if the property can be transferred without cost, other than costs properly allocated to the state as devisee under probate, to Washington State University.

    Upon transfer of this property, the parcel shall become part of the Washington State University Lind dryland research unit.  Any and all lease income derived from current leases on the property shall be deposited in a dedicated Washington State University local account for the benefit of the Lind dryland research unit.

    (3) The department of natural resources shall sell the real property legally described as lots 28 and 29, block 10, Neilson Brothers plat,  City of Lind, Adams county and the proceeds of the sale shall be deposited into the permanent common school fund.

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