Session Laws

Whereas, The deferred operation of this act would tend to defeat its purpose, which is to immediately provide for certain land transfers and restrictions on bond authorizations, 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 follows:

SECTION 1. The division of capital planning and operations is hereby authorized and directed to offer to the town of Southbridge, upon request of said town, the property located within said town and known as the Southbridge Armory, for the purchase price of one dollar. Said offer shall be made in the event that, and as soon thereafter as is reasonable, the National Guard of the United States ceases to make use of said property as an armory, and indicates its intent to abandon said property.

SECTION 2. The commissioner of the division of capital planning and operations is hereby authorized, subject to the provisions of sections forty E to forty J, inclusive, of chapter seven of the General Laws, to sell and convey by deed approved as to form by the attorney general, a certain parcel of land located in the city of Chelsea to the city of Chelsea, subject to such terms and conditions as the commissioner may prescribe, in consultation with the adjutant general said land being described as follows:

Beginning at the northeasterly corner of Crescent Avenue and Eleanor Street, at a bound set in the northerly line of Crescent Avenue, and thence running

NORTHEASTERLY

along said Crescent Avenue two hundred two and 30/100 feet (202.30') more or less, to a bound set in the northwesterly corner of the intersection of said Crescent Avenue with Vernon Street, thence turning and running

NORTHWESTERLY

along the westerly line of Vernon Street three hundred and sixty-nine and 43/100 feet (369.43') more or less, to a bound set in the southwesterly corner of the intersection of said Vernon Street with Spencer Avenue, thence turning and running

SOUTHWESTERLY

along the southerly line of said Spencer Avenue two hundred and one and 58/100 feet (201.58') to a bound set in the southeasterly corner of the intersection of said Spencer Avenue with Eleanor Street, thence turning and running

SOUTHEASTERLY

along the easterly line of said Eleanor Street three hundred and fifty-two and 24/100 feet (352.24') to the bound set in the northeasterly corner of the intersection of said Eleanor Street with Crescent Avenue aforesaid, the point of beginning.

SECTION 3. Notwithstanding the provisions of sections forty F and forty F> of chapter seven of the General Laws as they pertain to the process by which real property is determined to be surplus, but otherwise subject to the provisions of sections forty E to forty J, inclusive, of chapter seven of the General Laws, the commissioner of the division of capital planning and operations is hereby authorized to sell and convey by deed or deeds, approved as to form by the attorney general, a certain parcel of land and the buildings thereon in the town of Dedham known as the old Norfolk County Jail, located on Village avenue, said parcel to be more particularly described in a plan to be prepared by said division and recorded, to individuals or entities, subject to such terms and conditions as said commissioner may prescribe; provided, however, that no deed or instrument conveying said parcel shall be valid unless such deed or instrument shall provide that said parcel shall not be used as a correctional or detention institution or facility.

SECTION 4. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, the Salisbury State Reservation shall not be sold, transferred, leased or otherwise conveyed unless the town of Salisbury is first given an opportunity to purchase or lease or otherwise acquire said reservation.

SECTION 5. Paragraph (a) of section 12 of chapter 372 of the acts of 1984 is hereby amended by striking out the fifth sentence, as most recently amended by section 176 of chapter 150 of the acts of 1990, and inserting in place thereof the following sentence:- The aggregate principal amount of all bonds issued under the authority of this act shall not exceed the sum of two billion six hundred thousand dollars outstanding at any one time; provided, however, that bonds for the payment or redemption of which, either at or prior to maturity, refunding bonds shall have been issued, shall be excluded in the computation of outstanding bonds.

SECTION 6. Section 16 of said chapter 372 is hereby amended by striking out the fourth sentence, as most recently amended by section 177 of said chapter 150, and inserting in place thereof the following sentence:- The aggregate principal amount of the bonds issued under the authority of this act shall not exceed the sum of two billion six hundred thousand dollars outstanding at any one time; provided, however, that bonds for the payment or redemption of which, either at or prior to maturity, refunding bonds shall have been issued, shall be excluded in the computation of outstanding bonds.

SECTION 7. Item 2120-8883 in section 2 of chapter 564 of the acts of 1987 is hereby amended by inserting after the word "eighty-three", in line 9, the following words:- ; provided, however, that section nine A of chapter ninety-one of the General Laws or any other general or special law to the contrary shall not apply to the development, construction and associated cost for the Harbor Point Pier, Dorchester Bay in the city of Boston.

SECTION 8. The second paragraph of section 11 of chapter 799 of the acts of 1985, as most recently amended by section 14 of chapter 302 of the acts of 1989, is hereby further amended by inserting after the word "means", in line 8, the following words:- ; provided, however, that the town of Middleton shall be eligible for not less than three hundred thousand dollars in grant monies, for fire and police protection purposes, as appropriated in this section.