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Regular Session, 2012
SENATE BILL NO. 661
BY SENATOR JOHNS
PUBLIC PROPERTY. Authorizes Chennault Airport Authority to sell property to the city
of Lake Charles. (See Act)
AN ACT1
To authorize the Chennault International Airport Authority to transfer certain property to the2
governing authority of the city of Lake Charles; to provide for the property3
description; to provide for reservation of mineral rights; to provide terms and4
conditions; and to provide for related matters.5
Notice of intention to introduce this Act has been published.6
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:7
Section 1. The Chennault International Airport Authority, notwithstanding any8
other provision of law to the contrary, is hereby authorized and empowered to convey,9
transfer, assign, lease or deliver any interest, excluding mineral rights, the authority10
may have to all or any portion of the following described parcel of property to the11
governing authority of the city of Lake Charles:12
A certain tract of land, including all improvements located thereon,13
situated and lying South of the Right-of-Way Line of Old U.S. Highway 9014
(Broad Street), said point of commencement being located South 0 degrees 13'15
36" East 40 feet and North 89 degrees 51' 38" East 1400.58 feet from the16
Northwest Corner of Section 2, Township 10 South, Range 8 West, Lake17 SB NO. 661
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Charles, Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, said point of commencement also being1
the Northeast Corner of property sold by McNeese State University to William2
E. Slocum Jr., and more particularly described as follows, to wit:3
Thence South 0 degrees 56' 31" West 984.81 feet more or less along the4
East Line of property sold by McNeese State University to William E. Slocum5
Jr. and A.P. Leonards to the North Line of tract owned by the City of Lake6
Charles, Louisiana; Thence South 89 degrees 27' 32" East 1312.22 feet along the7
North Line of property owned by the City of Lake Charles, Louisiana; Thence8
North 1 degree 06' 31" East 22.79 feet; Thence North 0 degrees 06' 29" West9
977.25 feet to the South Right-of-Way of Old U.S. Highway 90 (Broad Street);10
Thence South 89 degrees 51' 38" West 1294.22 feet along the South Right-of-11
Way Line of Old U.S. Highway 90 (Broad Street) to the point of commencement12
and containing 29.69 acres, more or less.13
Section 2. The Chennault International Airport Authority is hereby authorized14
to enter into such agreements, covenants, conditions, and stipulations and to execute15
such documents as are necessary to properly effectuate any conveyance, transfer,16
assignment, lease or delivery of title, excluding mineral rights, to the property17
described in Section 1 herein, and as more specifically described in any such agreement18
entered into and documents executed by and between the Chennault International19
Airport Authority and the governing authority of the city of Lake Charles, in exchange20
of consideration proportionate to at least the appraised value of the property.21
Section 3. This Act shall take effect and become operative if and when the Act22
which originated as Senate Bill No. 219 of this 2012 Regular Session of the Legislature is23
enacted and becomes effective.24
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by J. W. Wiley.
DIGEST
Johns (SB 661)
Authorizes the Chennault International Airport Authority to transfer certain property to the
governing authority of the city of Lake Charles. SB NO. 661
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Effective if and when SB 219 of the 2012 RS is enacted and becomes effective.