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 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 convey by deed approved as to form by the attorney general, permanent access and utility easements located in the town of Shrewsbury to an individual or entity, subject to the requirements of sections two to four, inclusive, and to such terms and conditions as the commissioner may prescribe in consultation with the department of fisheries, wildlife and environmental law enforcement's public access board.

Said access and utility easements being over land owned by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts' Lake Quinsigamond Public Access Facility, under the care and control of the public access board, as shown on a plan entitled "Shrewsbury, Massachusetts Plan of Land on North Quinsigamond Avenue Owned by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Showing A Proposed Access And Utility Easement For The Benefit Of the Town of Shrewsbury", prepared by Gale Associates, Inc., Weymouth, Massachusetts, Stephen P. Dyer, Registered Professional Land Surveyor on file with the division of capital planning and operations and the public access board and said plan or any revised easement plan, plan of land or site plan to be recorded with said conveyance of easement interests.

SECTION 2. No deed conveying by or on behalf of the commonwealth the easements described in section one shall be valid unless such deed provides that said easement be used for the installation, construction and maintenance of public access roadway and utilities for public recreational uses.

SECTION 3. If the aforementioned purposes as described in section two are not begun within two years after the effective date of this act, or cease at any time thereafter, said easements shall revert to the commonwealth under such terms and conditions as the commissioner of the division of capital planning and operations may prescribe.

SECTION 4. The recipient of said easements shall assume the costs of any appraisals, surveys, and other expenses as deemed necessary by the commissioner for the granting of these easements.