Session Laws

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

The deputy commissioner of capital planning and operations is hereby authorized, subject to the provisions of sections forty E to forty J, inclusive, of chapter seven of the General Laws, to transfer a certain parcel of land in the town of Florida to the department of public works, in behalf of the town of Florida for use as a town way, in accordance with the provisions of section twenty-nine A of chapter eighty-one of the General Laws, in conjunction with the bridge replacement project replacing the Zoar Road and River Road bridge over the Deerfield River, designated as bridge number C-5-53, F-5-10. Subsequent to such transfer the department of public works shall make payment to the department of environmental management in accordance with the provisions of section one of chapter six hundred and ninety-three of the acts of nineteen hundred and fifty-five, as amended by chapter six hundred and fifty-seven of the acts of nineteen hundred and fifty-seven.

Said land to be diverted from its present recreational use to town way use is shown on a plan by Greiner Engineering Sciences, Incorporated entitled "Charlemont-Florida, Zoar Road-River Road Preliminary Right-of-Way Plan", which the department of public works is directed to file with the chief engineer of said department and which land is identified on a department layout plan as follows:

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Parcel No. 1-1 is defined by a line which begins at a point on the westerly location line for River Road, said point being on the dividing line between the towns of Charlemont and Florida and extends thence southerly along said town line approximately 248' to a point; thence turning and running along the proposed westerly town location line for the relocation of River Road, N - 40< - 09' - 15" - W approximately 179'; thence turning and continuing along said proposed town location line N - 07< - 56' - 55" - W approximately 129'; thence turning and running southeasterly along the existing westerly town location line for River Road approximately 140' to the point of beginning.

For the purposes of this act, deputy commissioner of capital planning and operations is hereby authorized to divert said parcel from its present recreational use to highway use as a town way.