2026 SESSION

ENROLLED

VIRGINIA ACTS OF ASSEMBLY -- CHAPTER

An Act to authorize the Department of Conservation and Recreation to convey and acquire property at Leesylvania State Park.

[H 714]

Approved

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. § 1. That in accordance with and as evidence of General Assembly approval, the Department of Conservation and Recreation (the Department) is hereby authorized to convey up to five acres to the Newport Estates Homeowners Association, Inc. (the Association) of any interest it may hold in a portion of real estate acquired by the Department and bearing the instrument number 200801160005235, as recorded in the Office of the Circuit Court Clerk of Prince William County.

§ 2. That as a condition of such conveyance and in exchange therefor, the Association shall convey to the Department property owned by the Association which is adjacent to Leesylvania State Park and deemed by the Department to be of equal recreational utility, along with a deed of open space easement on other Association land, the extent of which shall be deemed sufficient by the Department.

§ 3. That the purpose of these conveyances is to provide a permanent access from Neabsco Road in Prince William County to property owned by the Association, that is otherwise inaccessible, to allow the Association to complete repairs and restoration necessitated by a slope failure on the Association's neighborhood open space property while ensuring that the Department retains property of recreational utility at Leesylvania State Park.

§ 4. That neither the Association nor the Commonwealth shall be required to submit any payment to the other party to effectuate the conveyances contemplated herein.

§ 5. That the exchange of property rights contemplated herein shall be upon terms and conditions as the Department deems proper, with the prior written recommendation of the Department of General Services to the Governor, the written approval of the Governor of the transaction itself or as such approval may be delegated to the Secretary of Administration, and the approval of the Attorney General as to the form of the instruments prior to execution.