HOUSE  .   .   .   .   .   .   .  No. 5148

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, July 30, 2022.                         

The committee on Ways and Means, to whom was referred the Senate Bill further regulating the transfer of care and control of certain parcels of land in the town of Bridgewater from the department of correction to the department of fire services (Senate, No. 3065), reports recommending that the same ought to pass with amendments striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text contained in House document numbered 5148.

For the committee,

AARON MICHLEWITZ.

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 5148

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Twenty Two

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      By striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the following:—

An Act further regulating the transfer of care and control of certain parcels of land in the town of Bridgewater from the department of correction to the department of fire services.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

Section 5 of chapter 177 of the acts of 2020 is hereby amended by striking out the first and second sentences and inserting in place thereof the following 3 sentences:-

The commissioner of capital asset management and maintenance, in consultation with the department of correction and with the approval of the city known as the town of Bridgewater, shall transfer a 50-foot wide trail easement for nonmotorized passive recreational use to the town, at no cost to the town, to be held by its conservation commission pursuant to Article 97 of the Amendments to the Constitution of the Commonwealth. The trail easement shall be located within 100 feet of the Taunton river and the commonwealth boundary or as otherwise agreed to by the commissioner of capital asset management and maintenance, the department of correction and the town, beginning on the north side of Summer street and the west side of the Taunton river, then northerly to the commonwealth boundary and then northwesterly along this boundary to the intersection of Summer street and a parcel of land identified as parcel 1 on the town’s assessor’s map 90. Such transfer shall include areas at both the northerly and southerly ends of the said 50-foot wide trail easement sufficient to construct parking areas for up to 10 vehicles, the precise locations of which shall be agreed to by the commissioner of capital asset management and maintenance, the department of correction and the city known as the town of Bridgewater, but which shall not be within 100 feet of the Taunton river or any wetland area delineated by the department of environmental protection.