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General Assembly Bill No. 1208
July Special Session, 2019
LCO No. 11149
Referred to Committee on No Committee
Introduced by:
SEN. LOONEY, 11
th
Dist.
REP. ARESIMOWICZ, 30
th
Dist.
AN ACT CONCERNING TH E CONVEYANCE OF AN E ASEMENT OVER
A PARCEL OF STATE LAND IN THE TOWN OF NEWINGTON.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. (Effective from passage) (a) Notwithstanding any provision 1
of the general statutes, the Commissioner of Administrative Services 2
shall convey to the town of Newington a conservation and public 3
recreation easement over a portion of a parcel of land located in the 4
town of Newington at a cost equal to the administrative costs of 5
making such conveyance. Said parcel of land has an area of 6
approximately 18.2 acres and is identified as a portion of Lot 000 in 7
Block 010 on town of Newington Tax Assessor's Map 12, said portion 8
being the same parcel identified as the Preservation Parcel on a map 9
entitled "Potential Land Transfer Former Cedarcrest Hospital, 10
Newington and Wethersfield, dated 10/3/2013" on file with the 11
Department of Administrative Services. The conveyance of said 12
easement shall be subject to the approval of the State Properties 13
Review Board. 14
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(b) The town of Newington shall only use said easement for open 15
space and passive recreational use. Fee simple ownership in said 16
parcel shall be retained by the state with all rights and privileges, 17
including use for any future zoning setback requirements, buffer areas 18
and density purposes as the state deems necessary. 19
(c) The State Properties Review Board shall complete its review of 20
the conveyance of said conservation and public recreation easement 21
not later than thirty days after it receives a proposed easement deed 22
from the Department of Administrative Services. The land shall remain 23
under the care and control of said department. The State Treasurer 24
shall execute and deliver any deed or instrument necessary for a 25
conveyance of the easement under this section, which deed or 26
instrument shall include provisions to carry out the purposes of 27
subsection (b) of this section. The Commissioner of Administrative 28
Services shall have the sole responsibility for all other incidents of such 29
conveyance. 30
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 from passage New section