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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 6680
January Session, 2021
LCO No. 7972
Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION
AND ELECTIONS
Introduced by:
(GAE)
AN ACT CONCERNING TH E CONVEYANCE OF A PA RCEL OF STATE
LAND IN THE TOWN OF WINDSOR TO THE TOWN OF WINDSOR.
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 Transportation shall convey 2
to the town of Windsor a parcel of land located in the town of Windsor, 3
at a cost equal to the administrative costs of making such conveyance. 4
Said parcel of land has an area of approximately .6 acre and is identified 5
as the irregular rectangular shaped parcel labeled "Upper Broad Street" 6
depicted on a map entitled "Land to be Conveyed to Mastriani Realty, 7
LLC, Routes 75 and 159, Scale 1"= 30', March 30, 2021, Dubiel Associates 8
East Hartford, Connecticut, Project No. 2875". The precise area of the 9
parcel to be conveyed shall be determined by the Department of 10
Transportation. The conveyance shall be subject to the approval of the 11
State Properties Review Board. 12
(b) The town of Windsor shall use said parcel of land for economic 13
development and transit-oriented development purposes. If the town 14 Raised Bill No. 6680
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of Windsor: 15
(1) Does not use said parcel for said purposes; 16
(2) Does not retain ownership of all of said parcel; or 17
(3) Leases all or any portion of said parcel, other than a lease for said 18
purposes; 19
the parcel shall revert to the state of Connecticut. 20
(c) The conveyance of said parcel shall be granted (1) subject to the 21
right of the state to (A) pass and repass over and on said parcel of land 22
for the purpose of accessing lands of the state, and (B) place and 23
maintain over, under and on said parcel of land existing and future 24
utilities, including, but not limited to, electrical, water, sanitary sewer, 25
telecommunications and gas, and (2) subject to any rights and easements 26
with regard to said parcel of land that the state deems necessary to meet 27
its governmental obligations. 28
(d) The State Properties Review Board shall complete its review of the 29
conveyance of said parcel of land not later than thirty days after it 30
receives a proposed agreement from the Department of Transportation. 31
The land shall remain under the care and control of said department 32
until a conveyance is made in accordance with the provisions of this 33
section. The State Treasurer shall execute and deliver any deed or 34
instrument necessary for a conveyance under this section, which deed 35
or instrument shall include provisions to carry out the purposes of 36
subsections (b) and (c) of this section. The Commissioner of 37
Transportation shall have the sole responsibility for all other incidents 38
of such conveyance. 39
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 from passage New section
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Statement of Purpose:
To convey a parcel of state land to the town of Windsor for economic
and transit-oriented development purposes.
[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.]