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:

SECTION 1. For the purposes of section forty-two B of chapter seven of the General Laws and pursuant to section nineteen of chapter seven hundred and ninety-nine of the acts of nineteen hundred and eighty-five, the deputy commissioner of the division of capital planning and operations is hereby authorized to design and construct the replacement facility for the Charles street jail in accordance with the alternative method recommended in a report by said deputy commissioner filed with the general court prior to the effective date of this act.

SECTION 2. The division of capital planning and operations is hereby authorized to acquire by eminent domain a certain parcel of land currently owned by the Boston and Maine Railroad, described hereinafter as parcel A, for the purposes described in section five of chapter seven hundred and ninety-nine of the acts of nineteen hundred and eighty-five. Parcel A is bound and described as follows:

PARCEL A

Beginning at the southwesterly corner of the parcel, the point of beginning being along the northerly side of Nashua Street, at the boundary of property owned by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and controlled by the Department of Public Works, and extending in a northerly direction along the boundary of property controlled by the Department of Public Works a distance of 74.25 feet, more or less; then in a southeasterly direction along the boundary of property owned by the General Hospital Corporation a distance of 71.68 feet, more or less; then in a southerly direction along the boundary of property owned by the General Hospital Corporation to a point on the northerly edge of Nashua Street a distance of 58.0 feet, more or less; then westerly along the northerly edge of Nashua Street a distance of 70 feet, more or less, to the point of beginning.

Said "Parcel A" contains approximately four thousand three hundred and sixty square feet, the precise configuration and area of which shall be described in a land survey, to be prepared prior to the date of acquisition.