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Public Law 83–301

To retrocede to the State of Ohio concurrent jurisdiction over certain highways within Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.

Approved February 27, 1954

Statutory text

AN ACT

To retrocede to the State of Ohio concurrent jurisdiction over certain highways within Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That there is hereby granted to the State of Ohio a retrocession of jurisdiction over the portions of highways described below within the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base to the extent that all laws of the State and all laws of the United States shall be applicable thereon and the United States and the State shall exercise concurrent jurisdiction thereover:

(A)

State Route Numbered 4, beginning at Huberville, approximately three thousand feet northeast of the intersection of Harshmanville Road with State Route Numbered 4, thence northeast to the Greene County and Montgomery County line, the above section of road being in Montgomery County, Ohio;

(B)

All that part of State Route Numbered 4 lying between the Greene County and Montgomery County line and the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago, and St. Louis Railroad underpass and being within the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base reservation boundaries, the above section of road being in Greene County, Ohio;

(C)

(C) Beginning at the point where State Route Numbered 4 passes the extreme south corner of the original Wilbur Wright Field boundary, said point being approximately one thousand seven hundred feet northeast of Huffman Dam, thence northeasterly to the corporate limits of the village of Fairborn, Ohio, the above section of road being in Greene County, Ohio;

(D)

State Route Numbered 235, beginning at a point where State Route Numbered 235 intersects and crosses an easterly boundary line of the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, said point being approximately one thousand seven hundred feet north of the intersection of State Route Numbered 235 with State Route Numbered 4, thence westerly to the extreme west line of the reservation, excepting that part of the road lying between Haddix Road and the Osborn Road, the above section of road being in Greene County, Ohio;

(E)

State Route Numbered 69, beginning at the intersection of State Route Numbered 69 and original State Route Numbered 235, thence southwesterly with the east one-half of the road to the extreme southwest corner of the reservation boundary, the above section of road being in Greene County, Ohio;

(F)

Harshmanville Road, beginning at the intersection of Harshmanville Road with Yellow Springs Road in the village of Riverside, thence southerly with the east one-half of the road a distance of approximately one thousand four hundred feet, thence continuing southerly the full width of the road to Airway Road;

(G)

Yellow Springs Road, beginning at the intersection of Yellow Springs Road with Harshmanville Road in the village of Riverside, thence easterly with the south one-half of the road to the Wright-Patterson Air Fore Base reservation boundary;

(H)

Airway Road, beginning at the intersection of Airway Road with Harshmanville Road, thence easterly with the north one-half of the road a distance of approximately two thousand feet, thence continuing easterly with the full width of the road to the Greene County and Montgomery County line;

(I)

Spinning Road, beginning at the intersection of Spinning Road with the south right-of-way line of Airway Road, thence southerly with the west one-half of the road one thousand nine hundred and seventy-three feet to a south boundary line of the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base reservation;

(J)

Glendean Avenue, beginning at the intersection of Glendean Avenue with the north right-of-way of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, thence northerly with the east one-half of Glendean Avenue, a distance of approximately one thousand seven hundred feet;

(K)

Airway Road, beginning at the intersection of Airway Road with the Greene County and Montgomery County line, thence easterly to the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base reservation boundary, the point of ending being approximately four hundred and fifty feet east of Skyline Drive;

(L)

National Road (Huffman), beginning at a corner in the ‘Wright-Patterson Air Force Base reservation boundary, said corner being in the National Road and approximately two hundred feet north of its intersection with Airway Road, thence, with the west one-half of the road, northerly four thousand four hundred feet, thence continuing northerly with the full width of the road to Old Route Numbered 4;

(M)

Zink Road (New Germany Road), beginning at the inter-section of the New Germany Road with the south right-of-way line of Old Route Numbered 4, thence southerly with the east one-half of the road, a distance of eight hundred and ninety feet, also beginning in the New Germany Road at a corner in the reservation boundary, the beginning point being approximately one thousand four hundred feet southerly from the south right-of-way line of Old Route Numbered 4, thence continuing southerly with the westerly one-half of the road a distance of one thousand five hundred and eighty-seven feet;

(N)

Old Route Numbered 4. beginning at the intersection of Old Route Numbered 4 with the southerly right-of-way of the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago, and St. Louis Railroad, thence easterly the full width of the road to the part of the road right-of-way owned by the Commissioners of Greene County, Ohio;

(O)

Sand Hill Road, beginning at the intersection of Sand Hill Road with an east boundary line of the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base reservation, the same being the west boundary line of the abandoned Cincinnati and Lake Erie Railroad, thence westerly to State Route Numbered 235;

(P)

Haddix Road, beginning at the intersection of Haddix Road with State Route Numbered 235, thence northeasterly with the right one-half of the road to the Greene County and Clark County line;

(Q)

Elizabeth Road (Johnson Street), beginning at the intersection of Elizabeth Road (in Old Osborn) with State Route Numbered 235, thence northwesterly to Haddix Road;

(R)

Osborn Road, beginning at gate Numbered 260 at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base reservation boundary, thence northerly with the west one-half of the road to State Route Numbered 235;

(S)

Airway Road, beginning at the intersection of Airway Road with the southerly right-of-way of Old Route Numbered 4, thence southerly with the westerly one-half of the. road to the extreme south-east corner of the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Area “D” reservation boundary;

(T)

Old Route Numbered 4, all that part of Old Route Numbered 4 that may be within the boundaries of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Area “D”. The location of the highways and the bounded areas are shown and identified by corresponding letter symbols on sheet numbered L of a drawing designated: Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Basic Layout Plan, drawing numbered EWFE 150, dated December 2, 1952, on file in the Office, Chief of Engineers,

Effectiveness.

Department of the Army. This Act is effective only as to those portions of the highways and areas indicated in this Act over which the United States has heretofore acquired exclusive jurisdiction and shall not affect portions of highways and areas, if any, over which exclusive or concurrent jurisdiction is now vested in the State of Ohio.

Sec. 2.

The retrocession of jurisdiction provided for in this Act shall take effect upon the acceptance thereof by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio.

Approved February 27, 1954.

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