58:16A-10. Lease, sale or exchange of property taken; conveyance to United States

The commissioner (a) may determine whether any property taken for any of the purposes connected with flood control projects pursuant to this act may be leased, sold or exchanged on terms beneficial to the State, and in all cases of such determination he may lease, sell or exchange such property; in order to carry any such lease, sale or exchange into effect the commissioner is hereby authorized to execute and deliver, in the name of the people of the State, a quit-claim or lease of such property. (b) May also convey to the United States for flood control purposes all right, title and interest of the State in and to any property heretofore or hereafter so taken for any of such purposes for which reimbursement by the United States is made in accordance with section 2 of the Federal Flood Control Act of 1938 being public, numbered 761, Seventy-Fifth Congress, and including improvements made thereon for such purposes. Such conveyance shall be by deed or instrument of quit-claim, executed by the commissioner in the name of the people of the State, delivered to the Federal authority having jurisdiction. This paragraph shall not prevent reservations, if any, in such a conveyance, agreed to by such commissioner and Federal authority, to protect leases or easement, if any, theretofore lawfully made or created by such commissioner. Whenever the United States, acting by and through said Federal authority having jurisdiction, shall cause to be filed in the office of the Secretary of State of this State, a duplicate original of the deed or instrument of conveyance to the United States of any such property for the purposes therein specified, such jurisdiction as may be required for flood control purposes is thereupon ceded to the United States over the property described in said deed or instrument of conveyance, during the time that the United States shall be or remain the owner thereof and shall use such property for flood control purposes. (c) Is hereby authorized to agree with the United States as to the value of the property taken and for legal damages caused by any such taking thereof, as and for reimbursement by the United States and the commissioner is authorized to convey such property to the United States, in the manner herein provided, specifying in such conveyance that the consideration stated therein is the agreed value of such property and legal damages, and is in full reimbursement thereof by the United States. L.1948, c. 351, p. 1414, s. 10. Amended by L.1979, c. 358, s. 9, eff. Jan. 31, 1980.