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 division of capital planning and operations is hereby authorized, in the name of and on behalf of the commonwealth, subject to the provisions of sections forty E to forty J, inclusive, of chapter seven of the General Laws, to convey by an instrument, approved as to form by the attorney general, to the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority certain land currently controlled by the metropolitan district commission located between the eastern route commuter rail and the Amelia Earhart Dam on the Somerville, Charlestown line, in the city of Somerville for transportation purposes, bounded and described as follows:

Beginning at a point at the southwesterly corner of the herein described premises;

thence running by a curve to the left, having a radius of 6558.00 feet, a distance of 383.50 feet to a point;

thence running N04<=-30'-00"W, a distance of 76.09 feet to a point;

thence turning and running N0<=-01'-19"W, a distance of 247.52 feet to a point;

thence turning and running S10<=-02'-21"E, a distance of 320.00 feet to a point;

thence turning and running S84<=-45'-19"E, a distance of 87.00 feet to a point;

thence turning and running N40<=-33'-59"E, a distance of 500.00 feet to a point;

thence turning and running S22<=-13'-21"E, a distance of 157.42 feet to a point;

thence turning and running S40<=-33'-59"W, a distance of 364.37 feet to a point;

thence turning and running by a curve to the right, having a radius of 548.69 feet, a distance of 97.79 feet to a point;

thence running S40<=-33'-59"W, a distance of 217.89 feet to a point;

thence running by a curve to the left, having a radius of 598.69 feet, a distance of 116.78 feet to the point of beginning.

Containing about one hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred sixty-three square feet of land more or less.

Consideration to be paid for said transfer shall be one dollar. The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority shall be granted a temporary right of access over property under the jurisdiction of the metropolitan district commission and adjacent to the property described above, subject to the terms and conditions prescribed by the deputy commissioner of capital planning and operations, in consultation with the metropolitan district commission.