Bill H.3006 186th (2009 - 2010)

HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 1205        FILED ON: 1/6/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 3006

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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PRESENTED BY:

David P. Linsky

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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 passage of the accompanying bill:

An Act to convey certain Commonwealth propert y consisting of the waters of Farm Pond, its tributaries, and water distribution system to the town of Sherborn.

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PETITION OF:

[SIMILAR MATTER FILED IN PREVIOUS SESSION
SEE HOUSE, NO. 43 OF 2007-2008.]

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
 

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In the Year Two Thousand and Nine

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An Act to convey certain Commonwealth property consisting of the waters of Fa rm Pond, its tributaries, and water distribution system to the town of Sherborn.


 

              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 law to the contrary, the Commissioner of the Department of Mental Health, with the assistance of the Commissioner of the Department of Capital Assets Management and Maintenance, shall grant, convey and deed over without consideration to the Town of Sherborn all rights, title or other real property interests that the Commonwealth may hold as a result of Chapter 251 of the Acts of 1897 and Chapter 466 of the Acts of 1908, to the waters of Farm Pond in the Town of Sherborn, the tributarie s of such Farm Pond, and to a certain easements together with a pipeline from said Pond running underground within the Town of Sherborn, to the boundary between the Town of Sherborn and the Town of Medfield, heretofore used to convey such waters as to now closed Medfield State Hospital, for the Town of Sherborn to have and hold, for public recreation, water supply and fire protection.