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. The division of capital planning and operations, in consultation with the department of environmental management, is hereby authorized to convey to the town of West Tisbury, by deed approved as to form by the attorney general, a certain parcel of land in the Martha's Vineyard State Forest, under the care and control of the department of environmental management, for the purpose of access to town conservation land, as shown on a plan drawn by Peter W. Soule dated April 19, 1983, a copy of which is on file with the department of environmental management, particularly bounded and described as follows:

Beginning at a stone bound, being the point of common tangency among the towns of West Tisbury, Tisbury, Oak Bluffs, and Edgartown, commonly known as the Four-Town Bound, and running North 89< 41' 50" East a distance of 3237.15 feet along the borderline between the towns of Oak Bluffs and Edgartown to a stone bound in the sideline of Airport Road,

Thence running South 08< 57' 47" West a distance of 30.39 feet along the sideline of Airport Road to a point,

Thence running South 89< 41' 50" West a distance of 3228.03 feet through land formerly of the Department of Environmental Management to a point in the borderline between the towns of West Tisbury and Edgartown,

Thence running North 08< 24' 13" West a distance of 30.30 feet along the borderline between the towns of West Tisbury and Edgartown to the stone bound, commonly known as the Four-Town Bound, which marks the point of beginning.

This parcel of land contains 2.23 Acres more or less.

SECTION 2. In consideration of the above conveyance, the town of West Tisbury shall convey to the commonwealth a parcel of land in the town of Tisbury, particularly bounded and described as follows:

Beginning at a stone bound, being the point of common tangency among the towns of West Tisbury, Tisbury, Oak Bluffs, and Edgartown, commonly known as the Four-Town Bound, and running North 08< 28' 33" West along the borderline between the towns of Tisbury and Oak Bluffs to a point in the sideline of Little Pond Road,

Thence turning Westerly and running along the Southerly sideline of Little Pond Road to a point in the borderline between the towns of Tisbury and West Tisbury,

Thence running South 33< 09' 52" East to a stone bound, being the point of common tangency among the towns of West Tisbury, Tisbury, Oak Bluffs, and Edgartown, commonly known as the Four-Town Bound.

All of said boundaries except the line of Little Pond Road are determined by the Land Court to be located as shown on a plan drawn by William A. Colby, Surveyor, dated April 13, 1928, as modified and approved by the court, filed in the Land Registration Office, a copy of a portion is filed with Certificate #361.

This parcel of land contains 15 acres, more or less.

SECTION 3. This conveyance authorized by sections one and two shall be subject to the terms and conditions of a memorandum of understanding that will be executed by the division of capital planning and operations in consultation with the department of environmental management and the town of West Tisbury which shall provide that the land conveyed to the town pursuant to section one shall revert to the commonwealth in the event the land known as the "Greenlands", to which access is provided by said land conveyed pursuant to section one, is no longer restricted to passive recreational and wellfield use, and shall be filed with the department of environmental management on or before the effective date of this act.