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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 1110
January Session, 2021
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Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION
AND ELECTIONS
Introduced by:
(GAE)
AN ACT AMENDING THE CONVEYANCE OF PARCEL S OF STATE
LAND TO THE NEW HAVE N PORT AUTHORITY.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. Section 6 of public act 18-154 is repealed and the following 1
is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective from passage): 2
(a) Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes, the 3
Commissioner of Transportation shall convey to the New Haven Port 4
Authority two parcels of land located in the city of New Haven, at a cost 5
equal to the fair market value of the properties, as determined by the 6
average of the appraisals of two independent appraisers selected by the 7
commissioner, plus the administrative costs of making such 8
conveyance, and minus the costs for investigating and remediating 9
environmental contamination identified on said parcels. The first parcel 10
of land has an area of approximately .55 acre and is identified as 135 11
Fulton Terrace, at Lot 1200 in Block 955 on city of New Haven Assessor's 12
Map 69. The second parcel of land has an area of approximately .14 acre 13
and is identified as 54 Edgemere Road, at Lot 1100 in Block 955 on city 14 Raised Bill No. 1110
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of New Haven Assessor's Map 69. Both parcels are further identified as 15
the parcels of land described in Department of Transportation File 16
Number 92-932-37A. The conveyance shall be subject to the approval of 17
the State Properties Review Board. 18
(b) The New Haven Port Authority shall use said parcels of land for 19
economic development purposes. If the New Haven Port Authority: 20
(1) Does not use either of said parcels for said purposes; 21
(2) Does not retain ownership of all of said parcels; or 22
(3) Leases all or any portion of said parcels, except for a lease for 23
economic development purposes, 24
the parcels shall revert to the state of Connecticut. 25
[(b)] (c) The State Properties Review Board shall complete its review 26
of the conveyance of said parcels of land not later than thirty days after 27
it receives a proposed agreement from the Department of 28
Transportation. The land shall remain under the care and control of said 29
department until a conveyance is made in accordance with the 30
provisions of this section. The State Treasurer shall execute and deliver 31
any deed or instrument necessary for a conveyance under this section, 32
which deed or instrument shall include provisions to carry out the 33
purposes of subsection (b) of this section. The Commissioner of 34
Transportation shall have the sole responsibility for all other incidents 35
of such conveyance. 36
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 from passage PA 18-154, Sec. 6
Statement of Purpose:
To amend a prior conveyance to reduce the purchase price for parcels
of state land by the cost of environmental testing and remediation of the
parcel for contamination on the parcels. Raised Bill No. 1110
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[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.]