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mediately reverts to the Commonwealth, when the United States ceases to own it, or use it in accordance with the grant.”
Coleman bases his opinion on section 7.1-22A of the Virginia Code which became effective on June 26, 1936. The section reads that “if the United States shall cease to be the owner of any lands, or any part thereof, granted or conveyed to it by the Commonwealth, or if the purposes of any such grant or conveyance to the United States shall cease, or if the United States shall for five consecutive years fail to use any such land for the purposes of the grant or conveyance, then, and in that event, the right and title to such land, or any such part thereof, shall immediately revert to the Commonwealth.”
Coleman notes that the General Assembly amended the reversion statute at its 1975 Session to permit exchange of park land for privately owned lands without reversion to the Commonwealth under certain conditions.
Coleman also acknowledges that this amendment granting the right
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