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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 6679
January Session, 2021
LCO No. 7968
Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION
AND ELECTIONS
Introduced by:
(GAE)
AN ACT CONCERNING TH E LEASE OF A PARCEL OF STATE LAND
IN THE CITY OF MILFORD.
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 Energy and Environmental 2
Protection shall lease to the Connecticut Audubon Society for a twenty-3
five-year period, a parcel of land in the city of Milford for the sum of 4
one dollar, which lease may be further extended, in the discretion of the 5
commissioner. Said parcel of land has a total area of approximately 8.4 6
acres and is identified as the parcel described in a lease agreement dated 7
October 10, 1986, and recorded in Book 1524 at Page 167 of the City of 8
Milford Land Records. The lease and any extension of such lease shall 9
be subject to the approval of the State Properties Review Board. 10
(b) The Connecticut Audubon Society shall use said parcel of land for 11
open space purposes with public access to trails and the nature center 12
located on the parcel shall be used for public programming purposes. If 13
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(1) Does not use said parcel for any of said purposes; or 15
(2) Subleases all or any portion of said parcel, 16
the leased parcel shall revert to the state of Connecticut. 17
(c) The State Properties Review Board shall complete its review of the 18
lease of said parcel of land and any extension of such lease not later than 19
thirty days after it receives a proposed agreement from the Department 20
of Energy and Environmental Protection. The land shall remain under 21
the care and control of said department until a lease is entered in 22
accordance with the provisions of this section. The Commissioner of 23
Energy and Environmental Protection shall have the sole responsibility 24
for all other incidents of such lease. 25
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 from passage New section
Statement of Purpose:
To lease a parcel of state land in the city of Milford to the Connecticut
Audubon Society.
[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except
that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not
underlined.]