Session Laws

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 the provisions of section three of chapter seven hundred and fifty-nine of the acts of nineteen hundred and seventy-nine, the city of Pittsfield is hereby authorized to construct water system improvements on certain land in said city acquired for park and school purposes bounded and described as follows:-

Beginning at a concrete H monument set in the westerly sideline of the town way known as Valentine Road, said point being located opposite station 36+78.77 as shown on the 1894 City Government layout of said road;

Running thence southerly in a curve to the left having a radius of 1,620.23 feet and along the westerly sideline of said Valentine Road a distance of 109.51 feet to a concrete H monument set marking the northeasterly corner of a parcel of land identified by Land Court Docket #13324, which docket identifies the parcel as land of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Mental Health;

Running thence north 77 degrees, 32 minutes, 4 seconds west along the northerly line of said Department of Mental Health's land a distance of 483.93 feet to a 4 inch concrete bound marking the southeasterly corner of the City of Pittsfield's Burbank Park;

Running thence north 11 degrees, 53 minutes, 59 seconds east along the easterly line of said Burbank Park a distance of 430.00 feet to a concrete H monument;

Running thence south 78 degrees, 6 minutes, 1 second east along remaining land of the grantor herein a distance of 330.00 feet to a concrete H monument;

Running thence south 11 degrees, 53 minutes, 59 seconds west along remaining land of the grantor herein a distance of 326.42 feet to a concrete H monument;

Running thence south 78 degrees, 6 minutes, 1 second east along remaining land of the grantor herein a distance of 169.59 feet to the place of beginning;

The above described parcel of land contains 3.668 acres and is a portion of the same premises taken by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Mental Health by deed dated August 26, 1969 and recorded in the Berkshire Middle District Registry of Deeds in Book 879, Page 479;

The above described premises are further shown and described on a plan entitled, "Survey of Land in Pittsfield, Mass. Prepared for the City of Pittsfield", dated November 1, 1984 and prepared by Dennis C. Drumm & Associates, which plan is to be recorded in the Berkshire Middle District Registry of Deeds simultaneously herewith.

Said land being a portion of certain land conveyed by the commonwealth, acting by and through its commissioner of mental health, to the city of Pittsfield by deed dated May fourteenth, nineteen hundred and eighty, under the provisions of said chapter seven hundred and fifty-nine.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.