SENATE DOCKET, NO. 58        FILED ON: 1/5/2017

SENATE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 1152

 

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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PRESENTED BY:

Marc R. Pacheco

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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 town of Wareham to lease certain land.

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PETITION OF:

 

Name:

District/Address:

Marc R. Pacheco

First Plymouth and Bristol

Susan Williams Gifford

2nd Plymouth


SENATE DOCKET, NO. 58        FILED ON: 1/5/2017

SENATE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 1152

By Mr. Pacheco, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1152) of Marc R. Pacheco and Susan Williams Gifford (by vote of the town) for legislation to authorize the town of Wareham to lease certain land.  Municipalities and Regional Government.  [Local Approval Received.]

 

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

 

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In the One Hundred and Ninetieth General Court
(2017-2018)

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An Act authorizing the town of Wareham to lease certain land.

 

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 purpose of this Act is to allow for the creation of the Onset Bay Discovery Center to be located at a rehabilitated Onset Bathhouse to promote and enhance the use of the waters, shoreline and other natural resource areas of Buzzards Bay for educational, recreational, environmental and other associated purposes.

SECTION 2. Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, the Board of Selectmen for the Town of Wareham may enter into a long term ninety-nine (99) year lease with the Buzzards Bay Coalition, Inc., a Massachusetts nonprofit corporation, pursuant to a previously issued request for proposals under M.G.L. c. 30B, § 16 on file with the Town of Wareham Board of Selectmen, for the lease of the Onset Bathhouse and surrounding grounds located on Onset Avenue, Wareham, Massachusetts, including the design, development, restoration, construction, maintenance, management and operation of the improvements to the Onset Bathhouse and surrounding grounds to be made by the Buzzards Bay Coalition, Inc. in accordance with said request for proposals, which improvements shall not be subject to M.G.L. c. 149, all upon the terms and conditions of the lease to be approved by the Town of Wareham Board of Selectmen.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage.