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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 6935
January Session, 2023
LCO No. 6775
Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION
AND ELECTIONS
Introduced by:
(GAE)
AN ACT AMENDING A CONVEYANCE OF A PARCEL OF STATE LAND
IN THE CITY OF BRIDGEPORT.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. Section 15 of special act 07-11, as amended by section 4 of 1
public act 10-1 of the June special session and section 10 of special act 2
15-1 of the June special session, is amended to read as follows (Effective 3
from passage): 4
(a) Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes, the 5
Commissioner of Transportation shall convey to the Bridgeport Port 6
Authority a parcel of land located in the city of Bridgeport, at a cost 7
equal to the administrative costs of making such conveyance. Said 8
parcel of land has an area of approximately 1.008 acres and is identified 9
as a certain parcel of land situated in the city of Bridgeport, county of 10
Fairfield, and state of Connecticut, being more particularly bounded 11
and described as follows: 12
"Beginning at a point, said point being the southeast corner of the 13
intersection of Seaview Avenue and the eastbound off-ramp of 14 Raised Bill No. 6935
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Interchange 29, Interstate 95; 15
Thence running southwesterly along land of the Bridgeport Port 16
Authority, 620', more or less; 17
Thence running northerly along the easterly highway line of 18
Stratford Avenue, along a curved line concave to the west, 370' more or 19
less; 20
Thence running easterly along the southerly highway line of said 21
eastbound off-ramp of Interchange 29, Interstate Route 95, 440' more or 22
less." 23
The conveyance shall be subject to the approval of the State Properties 24
Review Board. 25
(b) (1) The Bridgeport Port Authority shall use said parcel of land for 26
economic development or waterfront related purposes and may sell or 27
lease all or any portion of said parcel for economic development or 28
waterfront related purposes. If the Bridgeport Port Authority: 29
(A) Does not use said parcel for said purposes; or 30
(B) Sells or leases all or any portion of said parcel, except for a sale or 31
lease of all or any portion of said parcel for economic development or 32
waterfront related purposes, in accordance with the provisions of this 33
subsection, the parcel shall revert to the state of Connecticut. Any sale 34
or lease of said parcel in accordance with this section shall be for [the 35
fair market value of the property or lease of said property, as 36
determined by the average of the appraisals of two independent 37
appraisers selected by the commissioner] one hundred nineteen 38
thousand dollars. Any funds received by the Bridgeport Port Authority 39
from a sale or lease of said parcel in accordance with this section shall 40
be transferred to the State Treasurer for deposit in the Special 41
Transportation Fund. 42
(2) Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes, the 43
Department of Transportation shall grant the Bridgeport Port Authority 44 Raised Bill No. 6935
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a right of way from Stratford Avenue, Connecticut Route 130, directly 45
to and from said parcel, at a place to be determined by the department. 46
(c) The State Properties Review Board shall complete its review of the 47
conveyance of said parcel of land not later than thirty days after it 48
receives a proposed agreement from the Department of Transportation. 49
The land shall remain under the care and control of said department 50
until a conveyance is made in accordance with the provisions of this 51
section. The State Treasurer shall execute and deliver any deed or 52
instrument necessary for a conveyance under this section, which deed 53
or instrument shall include provisions to carry out the purposes of 54
subsection (b) of this section. The Commissioner of Transportation shall 55
have the sole responsibility for all other incidents of such conveyance. 56
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 from passage SA 07-11, Sec. 15
Statement of Purpose:
To amend a prior authorization for a conveyance of a parcel of state land
in the city of Bridgeport to specify the sale price of said parcel and the
amount to be deposited in the Special Transportation Fund.
[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.]