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General Assembly Substitute Bill No. 7418
January Session, 2019
AN ACT AMENDING THE CONVEYANCE OF CERTAI N PARCELS OF
STATE LAND IN THE TOWN OF MANSFIELD.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. Section 3 of special act 89-54 is amended to read as 1
follows (Effective from passage): 2
(a) Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes to the 3
contrary, the [commissioner of mental retardation] Commissioner of 4
Developmental Services shall convey to the town of Mansfield, subject 5
to the approval of the [state properties review board] State Properties 6
Review Board and at a cost equal to the administrative costs of making 7
such conveyance, two parcels of land located in the town of Mansfield, 8
having a total area of approximately 16 acres. The first parcel of land 9
contains approximately 15.6 acres, is a portion of a larger parcel 10
conveyed to the state of Connecticut by William P. Kelley and 11
recorded in the Mansfield Land Records at Volume 47, Page 227 and is 12
the same property shown on a map entitled "Map Showing Land of the 13
State of Connecticut to be Acquired by the Town of Mansfield" dated 14
December 1988, scale 1" = 40 feet, 2 sheets certified A-2 by Grant 15
Meitzler, RLS #10,005, which map is filed in the Mansfield Land 16
Records. Said parcel of land shall be conveyed subject to an access 17
easement of record in favor of Raymond E. and Marianne Gergler, 18
which is of unspecified width giving a right to pass over said parcel 19 Substitute Bill No. 7418
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from a point near the top of the hill (at land of Gergler) to Depot Road. 20
The second parcel of land is a triangular parcel of land located 21
westerly of the southwesterly corner of land of Gergler, easterly of the 22
Central Vermont Railroad Company land, and northerly of the 23
northwesterly corner of the first parcel herein described and is the 24
same property shown on a map entitled "Map Showing Land of State 25
of Connecticut to be acquired by the Town of Mansfield", dated 26
January 1989, scale 1" = 20 feet, sheet 2-A of 2, certified Class D by 27
Grant Meitzler, RLS #10,005, which map is to be filed in the Mansfield 28
[land records] Land Records. The conveyance of said parcels of land 29
shall include transfer of rights to the abandoned railroad siding on said 30
parcels to the town of Mansfield, and the right to the use of the existing 31
sewer line, water line, and utility lines located on Connecticut Light 32
and Power Company poles 21, 22, 23 and 24, on terms negotiated by 33
the [commissioner of mental retardation] Commissioner of 34
Developmental Services and the town of Mansfield. The locations of 35
such utility service lines are shown on the above referenced map 36
showing the first parcel of land herein described. 37
(b) The town of Mansfield shall use said parcels of land [for a day 38
care facility] for municipal purposes and shall compensate the state of 39
Connecticut for [such facility's] use of the utilities and services of the 40
Mansfield Training School. [If said parcels are not used for such 41
purpose, the parcels shall revert to the state of Connecticut.] If the 42
town of Mansfield: 43
(1) Does not use said parcels for said purposes; 44
(2) Does not retain ownership of all of said parcels; or 45
(3) Leases all or any portion of said parcels, 46
the parcels shall revert to the state of Connecticut. 47
(c) The [state properties review board] State Properties Review 48
Board shall complete its review of the conveyance of said parcels of 49
land not later [that] than thirty days after it receives a proposed 50 Substitute Bill No. 7418
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agreement from the [commissioner of mental retardation] 51
Commissioner of Developmental Services. The land shall remain 52
under the care and control of said commissioner until a conveyance is 53
made in accordance with the provisions of this section. The [state 54
treasurer] State Treasurer shall execute and deliver any deed or 55
instrument necessary for a conveyance under this section and the 56
[commissioner of public works] Commissioner of Administrative 57
Services shall have the sole responsibility for all other incidents of such 58
conveyance. 59
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 from passage SA 89-54, Sec. 3
GAE Joint Favorable Subst.