HomeMy Public PortalAboutMRS Agreement 2001_Page_1 STATE OF GEORGIA
COUNTY OF CHATHAM
AGREEN2NT
This Agreement, made and entered into this day of
2001, by the city of Tybee Island, Georgia,
hereinafter "the City and The Tybee Island Marine Rescue
Squadron hereinafter "MRS
W I T N E S S E T H
WHEREAS, the city is a municipal corporation under Georgia law
authorized to provide recreational, governmental, public health,
police and safety related services, activities and facilities to
citizens and is desirous of improving its ability to do so; and
WHEREAS, the MRS is a non profit corporation engaged in
providing rescue missions and response calls from the Tybee Island
Police Department and /or other local and federal agencies to engage
in search and rescue operations on waters adjacent to Tybee Island
as volunteers using privately owned vessels and over the years has
provided invaluable service in assisting the city of Tybee Island
with search and rescue missions; and
WHEREAS, the City of Tybee Island has been judicially
determined by the Supreme Court of Georgia in Swangberg v The City
of Tybee Island, Georgia, 271 Ga. 23 (1999' to be the fee simple
owner of the Premises hereinafter described which premises are a
part of the right of wav the former Highway 80 prior to relocation
of the bridge to Tybee Island; and
WHEREAS, a portion of the right of way is an appropriate and
suitable location for a municipal building which will be used for
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