{"id":3536,"date":"2026-01-23T00:26:44","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T00:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/?p=3536"},"modified":"2026-01-23T02:22:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T02:22:41","slug":"fee-simple-ownership-loophole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/fee-simple-ownership-loophole\/","title":{"rendered":"Fee simple ownership loophole"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wvlegislature.gov\/Bill_Text_HTML\/2024_SESSIONS\/RS\/bills\/sb822%20sub1.pdf\">SB 822<\/a>\u00a0in West Virginia would have changed fee simple ownership by ending fee simple ownership after 20 years for property with any land protection agreement that interferes with mineral development and timber harvesting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The policy goal of SB822 would have been to promote land and mineral development and timber harvesting \u201cfor the economic benefit of the citizens of the state.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsfromthestates.com\/article\/land-ownership-rights-threatened-legislature\">News from the States | Land ownership rights threatened by the Legislature<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SB 822\u00a0in West Virginia would have changed fee simple ownership by ending fee simple ownership after 20 years for property with any land protection agreement that interferes with mineral development and timber harvesting. The policy goal of SB822 would have been to promote land and mineral development and timber harvesting \u201cfor the economic benefit of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3536"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3538,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3536\/revisions\/3538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}