Missouri HB 2349: Requires the Department of Natural Resources to offer certain state park property for sale to certain veterans

Bill Text

SECOND REGULAR SESSION
HOUSE BILL NO. 2349
99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE POGUE.
5126H.01I D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To amend chapter 253, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to the sale of certain
state park property.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Chapter 253, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be
2 known as section 253.570, to read as follows:
253.570. 1. This section shall be known and may be cited as the “Veterans
2 Opportunity Act.”
3 2. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the department of natural
4 resources shall sell all property known as the Eleven Point State Park to comply with the
5 recorded scenic easement for the Eleven Point National Scenic River between Reed Wayne
6 Pigman, Jr. and the United States, which was signed on August 21, 1979. The property
7 shall be sold at public auction in tracts of at least three hundred acres. Military veterans
8 and the immediate family members of any member of the military who was killed in action
9 or declared missing in action shall be given preference for the purchase of such property
10 in the public auction. Any property not purchased by such individuals in the public
11 auction shall then be offered to members of the general public at public auction. Any
12 property not purchased at public auction shall remain on the real estate market until such
13 time as all property is sold. The department of natural resources shall be required to cover
14 the regular maintenance costs of such property including, but not limited to, bush hogging
15 and maintaining fences until such time as all property is sold.
16 3. Proceeds from the sale of such property shall be deposited in the state park
17 maintenance fund and shall be used solely for state park maintenance and for remediation
EXPLANATION — Matter enclosed in bold-faced brackets [thus] in the above bill is not enacted and is intended
to be omitted from the law. Matter in bold-face type in the above bill is proposed language.

HB 2349 2
18 efforts outlined in the settlement agreement between ASARCO, L.L.C., the United States,
19 the state of Missouri, and the Doe Run Company in 2008.
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