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. Chapter four hundred and thirty-three of the acts of nineteen hundred and eighty-six is hereby repealed.

SECTION 2. The 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 convey, by deed approved as to form by the attorney general, a certain parcel of land located in the town of Tewksbury, presently under the care and control of the department of public health, to the town of Tewksbury for recreational, outdoor cultural, skating and other purposes. Said parcel is shown on Tewksbury assessor map 87, Lot 1 and is bounded and described as follows:- Beginning at the Northwest corner of the premises, said point being on the easterly line of Livingston Street, approximately 0.6 miles north of the intersection of Main Street and being the southwest corner of land of now or formerly the Tewksbury Housing Authority, thence; N 87< 15' 00" E by said Housing Authority land and land of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, a distance of 653.93 feet, more or less to a point thence; S 09< 02' 00" E by said Commonwealth land a distance of 687.00 feet more or less, to a point, thence; N 69< 07' 48" W by said Commonwealth land a distance of 272.63 feet, more or less, to a point, thence; N 89< 04' 18" W by said Commonwealth land a distance of 420.00 feet, more or less, to a point on the easterly line of said Livingston Street, thence; N 09< 02' 00" W by said easterly line of Livingston Street, a distance of 550.00 feet, more or less, to the point of beginning.

SECTION 3. The consideration for the conveyance of said parcel shall be the acceptance of the town of Tewksbury that said conveyance is the full and complete compensation or discharge of any obligation, whether obligation be monetary, moral or of any kind or nature, that the town of Tewksbury may be owed by the commonwealth for the closure of the Danvers State Hospital and its subsequent merger with the Tewksbury State Hospital. In the event said parcel of land ceases to be used at any time for the purposes contained herein said parcel of land shall revert to the care and control of the division of capital planning and operations and any further disposition of said parcel of land shall be subject to the provisions of sections forty E to forty J, inclusive of chapter seven of the General Laws.

SECTION 4. The town of Tewksbury shall be responsible for any costs for appraisals, surveys, and other expenses relating to the transfer of property, or for any costs of any nature and kind for its development or for its maintenance and liabilities.