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. The deputy commissioner of the division 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 sell and convey by deed approved as to form by the attorney general, for consideration of one dollar, a certain parcel of land and the buildings thereon, all under the control of the department of mental health, located in the town of Foxborough, to the Foxborough Housing Authority for the purposes of constructing low or mixed income housing and housing for the mentally or physically handicapped, subject to the requirements of sections two and three and to such additional terms and conditions as the deputy commissioner may prescribe in consultation with the department of mental health.

Said parcel is bounded and described as follows:-

Beginning at a point on the southeasterly line of Walnut Street, said point being the northeast corner of the premises; thence running southeast by land now or formerly of the Trustees of the Norwood Hospital to a point on the westerly line of Interstate Highway 95; thence running southwesterly and westerly along the line of Interstate 95 to a point at the easterly line of Route 140; thence northerly and northeasterly along the easterly line of Route 140 to a point on the southeasterly line of Walnut St.; thence northeasterly along the southeasterly line of Walnut Street to the point of beginning.

The above described parcel contains approximately twenty acres and will be more particularly shown on a plan of the property to be prepared by the Foxborough Housing Authority to be submitted to the division of capital planning and operations.

SECTION 2. In the event that the above described parcel is not used for the purposes described in section one within five years of the effective date of this act, or if the Foxborough Housing Authority ceases to use the parcel for such purposes at any time, the parcel shall revert to the commonwealth under such terms and conditions as the deputy commissioner may prescribe.

SECTION 3. The recipient of said parcel will assume the costs of appraisals, surveys, or other expenses as deemed necessary by the deputy commissioner for the conveyance of this property.