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, formerly under the control of the department of correction, located in the town of Norfolk, to the Norfolk Housing Authority for the purpose of constructing state assisted housing 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 correction.

Said parcel is situated in the town of Norfolk on the westerly side of Pond street and on the southerly side of Marshall street at the intersection of both streets and is further bounded and described as follows:

Beginning at the southeast corner of the premises on Pond Street; thence in a northerly direction along the westerly side of Pond Street a distance of approximately 1130 feet to a point at the intersection of Pond Street and Marshall Street; thence in a southwesterly direction along the southerly side of Marshall Street a distance of approximately 550 feet to a point; thence in a southeasterly direction approximately 945 feet to a point; thence in a northeasterly direction approximately 270 feet to the point; thence in a southeasterly direction approximately 110 feet to a point of beginning.

The above described parcel contains approximately 9.9 acres and is shown as Lot 14, Block 69 on Assessors Plan 19, prepared by New England Survey Service, Inc., 1964 and on file in the assessors office in the town of Norfolk.

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 Norfolk 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 of capital planning and operations may prescribe.

SECTION 3. The Norfolk Housing Authority shall assume the costs of appraisals, surveys and other expenses as deemed necessary by the deputy commissioner of capital planning and operations for the granting of this conveyance.