HB2203: Subaqueous lands; parties in City of Norfolk to pay amount commensurate with property interest.

Chief Patron

Leo Wardrup (R-Virginia Beach)
Served: 1992–

Progress

☑	Introduced
☐	Passed Committee
☑	Passed House
☑	Passed Senate
☑	Signed by Governor
☑	Became Law

Status

04/04/2007: enacted
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Summary

Conveyance of subaqueous lands. Clarifies that the three parties who were authorized to receive conveyances of parcels of subaqueous lands located in the City of Norfolk in 2006 will not have to pay fair market value for these properties. The bill exempts them from having to pay fair market value because they have paid local real estate taxes on these parcels along with the adjacent upland properties since they have owned the properties.

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Comments

Waldo Jaquith writes:

This bill should be framed on placed on the wall of the General Assembly, so that all may gaze upon its stupidity. The problem here isn't Norfolk, or Del. Wardrup, or "subaqueous lands" (whatever those are). It's the fact that Richmond stubbornly holds onto its power, requiring that localities come begging for permission every time they want to blow their collective nose. The fact that the General Assembly has to deal with three people and some land in Norfolk is staggeringly dumb.

Posted 23 months ago. #

analog man writes:

This has nothing to do with the powers/lack thereof of localities. The Commonwealth owns the submerged lands -- the land beneath navigable waters -- and the ownership question has to be settled either by litigation or legislation.

Posted 23 months ago. #