HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 94836 FILED ON: 7/7/2010
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Section 130 contained in the engrossed Bill making appropriations for the fiscal year 2011 for the maintenance of the departments, boards, commissions, institutions and certain activities of the Commonwealth, for interest, sinking fund and serial bond requirements and for certain permanent improvements (see House, No. 4800), which had been returned by His Excellency the Governor with recommendation of amendment (for message, see Attachment I of House, No. 4840). July 1, 2010.
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The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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In the Year Two Thousand and Ten
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An Act releasing a restriction on a parcel in the town of Norwood.
Whereas
,
The
deferred operation of this act would tend to defeat its purpose, which is to forthwith clear title to the property for transfer, therefore it is hereby declared to be an emergency law, necessary for the immediate preservation of the public convenience
.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follo
ws:
(a) Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary,
any restriction on use of, and any reversionary interest held by the commonwealth on, the parcel designated as the Walnut Lodge property in the first paragraph of chapter 544 of the acts of 1976 conveyed to Caritas Norwood Hospital, Inc., on June 20,
1978, are hereby released.
(b)
For the purposes of this section “Caritas Norwood Hospital, Inc.
or
its successors”
shall mean Caritas Norwood Hospital Inc. or any person, group or entity that purchases all, or substantially all, of the assets of Caritas Christi Healthcare System
or all, or substantially all, of the assets of Caritas Norwood Hospital, Inc.
including any subsequent purchasers, whether such purchase is effected by sale, merger or otherwise.
(c)
In consideration for the releases set forth in subsection (a), Caritas Norwood Hospital, Inc., or its successors, shall maintain services for the treatment of alcoholism and related conditions at the Walnut Lodge property or, if not at the Walnut Lodge property, at the site of the Caritas Norwood Hospital, Inc.
and upon any disposition of said Walnut Lodge property by Caritas Norwood Hospital, or its successors,
50 per cent of the gross proceeds from the sale, lease or other disposition of said parcel shall be paid
by the seller
to the commonwealth
acting by and through
the commissioner of capital asset management and maintenance
. For the purposes of this section, “gross proceeds” shall mean all payments paid to Caritas Norwood Hospital, Inc.
or
its successors, as and when paid, by a transferee who shall not use the property as a medical care facility. Under any change of use by Caritas Norwood Hospital, Inc. or any successor thereto, if said Walnut Lodge property, or any portion thereof, ceases to be used for the treatment of alcoholism and related conditions or, if not at the Walnut Lodge property, at the site of the Caritas Norwood Hospital Inc., then Caritas Norwood Hospital, Inc. or any successor thereto, shall pay to the commonwealth, acting by and through the commissioner of capital asset management and maintenance, the sum of 50 per cent of the assessed valuation of the land included in such change of use, as such assessment valuation appears on the real estate tax assessment listing maintained by the assessors of the town of
Foxborough
for the fiscal year in which such change of use occurs. Nothing in this section shall restrict the transfer or conveyance of said property, or any portion thereof, for use as a medical care facility.
