HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 1332        FILED ON: 1/15/2015

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 3416

 

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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PRESENTED BY:

Stephen Kulik

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To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General
Court assembled:

The undersigned legislators and/or citizens respectfully petition for the adoption of the accompanying bill:

An Act authorizing the release of certain land in the town of Cummington from the operation of an agricultural preservation restriction.

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PETITION OF:

 

Name:

District/Address:

Date Added:

Stephen Kulik

1st Franklin

1/15/2015


HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 1332        FILED ON: 1/15/2015

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 3416

By Mr. Kulik of Worthington, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3416) of Stephen Kulik that the Commissioner of the Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance be authorized to release certain land in the town of Cummington from the operation of an agricultural preservation restriction.  Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture.

 

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

 

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In the One Hundred and Eighty-Ninth General Court
(2015-2016)

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An Act authorizing the release of certain land in the town of Cummington from the operation of an agricultural preservation restriction.

 

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. Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary but subject to section 32 of chapter 7C of the General Laws and section 32 of chapter 184 of the General Laws, the commissioner of capital asset management and maintenance, in consultation with the commissioner of agricultural resources, may execute a certificate of release of land, or a portion thereof, covered by a certain agricultural preservation restriction in the town of Cummington so the land, or portion thereof, may be used as cemetery land. The exact boundaries of the parcel to be released from the agricultural preservation restriction shall be determined by the commissioner of capital asset management and maintenance.

SECTION 2. Except as partially released by the recording of the certificate of release of the parcel executed by the commissioner of capital asset management and maintenance and the commissioner of agricultural resources, as authorized by this act, the original agricultural preservation restriction shall remain in full force and effect.