Senate Bill No. 1206
July Special Session, Special Act No. 19-6
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
follows (Effective from passage):
(a) Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes to the
contrary, the [commissioner of mental retardation] Commissioner of
Developmental Services shall convey to the town of Mansfield, subject
to the approval of the [state properties review board] State Properties
Review Board and at a cost equal to the administrative costs of making
such conveyance, two parcels of land located in the town of Mansfield,
having a total area of approximately 16 acres. The first parcel of land
contains approximately 15.6 acres, is a portion of a larger parcel
conveyed to the state of Connecticut by William P. Kelley and
recorded in the Mansfield Land Records at Volume 47, Page 227 and is
the same property shown on a map entitled "Map Showing Land of the
State of Connecticut to be Acquired by the Town of Mansfield" dated
December 1988, scale 1" = 40 feet, 2 sheets certified A-2 by Grant
Meitzler, RLS #10,005, which map is filed in the Mansfield Land
Records. Said parcel of land shall be conveyed subject to an access
easement of record in favor of Raymond E. and Marianne Gergler, Senate Bill No. 1206
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which is of unspecified width giving a right to pass over said parcel
from a point near the top of the hill (at land of Gergler) to Depot Road.
The second parcel of land is a triangular parcel of land located
westerly of the southwesterly corner of land of Gergler, easterly of the
Central Vermont Railroad Company land, and northerly of the
northwesterly corner of the first parcel herein described and is the
same property shown on a map entitled "Map Showing Land of State
of Connecticut to be acquired by the Town of Mansfield", dated
January 1989, scale 1" = 20 feet, sheet 2-A of 2, certified Class D by
Grant Meitzler, RLS #10,005, which map is to be filed in the Mansfield
[land records] Land Records. The conveyance of said parcels of land
shall include transfer of rights to the abandoned railroad siding on said
parcels to the town of Mansfield, and the right to the use of the existing
sewer line, water line, and utility lines located on Connecticut Light
and Power Company poles 21, 22, 23 and 24, on terms negotiated by
the [commissioner of mental retardation] Commissioner of
Developmental Services and the town of Mansfield. The locations of
such utility service lines are shown on the above referenced map
showing the first parcel of land herein described.
(b) The town of Mansfield shall use said parcels of land for [a day
care facility] municipal purposes and shall compensate the state of
Connecticut for [such facility's] use of the utilities and services of the
Mansfield Training School. If [said parcels are not used for such
purpose, the parcels shall revert to the state of Connecticut.] the town
of Mansfield:
(1) Does not use said parcels for said purposes;
(2) Does not retain ownership of all of said parcels; or
(3) Leases all or any portion of said parcels, other than a lease for
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the parcels shall revert to the state of Connecticut.
(c) The [state properties review board] State Properties Review
Board shall complete its review of the conveyance of said parcels of
land not later [that] than thirty days after it receives a proposed
agreement from the [commissioner of mental retardation]
Commissioner of Developmental Services. The land shall remain
under the care and control of said commissioner until a conveyance is
made in accordance with the provisions of this section. The [state
treasurer] State Treasurer shall execute and deliver any deed or
instrument necessary for a conveyance under this section and the
[commissioner of public works] Commissioner of Administrative
Services shall have the sole responsibility for all other incidents of such
conveyance.
Approved July 23, 2019