AN ACT AMENDING A PRIOR CONVEYANCE OF A PARCEL OF STATE LAND TO THE TOWN OF STRATFORD TO PERMIT THE PARCEL TO BE SOLD, TRANSFERRED OR LEASED.

Plain English Breakdown

The official text does not provide a specific calendar date for effectiveness beyond 'Effective from passage' in the section header.

Law Changing Rules for State Land in Stratford

This law removes an old rule requiring a piece of state land given to Stratford to be used only for schools, allowing the town to use it specifically for parking or sell and lease it for that purpose.

What This Bill Does

• Removes restrictions from a 1968 deed that required the land to be used only for school purposes and prohibited its sale.
• Allows the Town of Stratford to use the parcel for parking purposes only.
• Permits the town to sell, transfer, or lease the land if it is done specifically for parking purposes.
• Requires any sale or lease price to equal the fair market value approved by the Commissioner of Transportation before the transaction occurs.
• Mandates that money from selling, transferring, or leasing the land be paid promptly to the State Treasurer and deposited in the Special Transportation Fund.

Who It Names or Affects

• The Town of Stratford
• The Commissioner of Transportation
• The Office of the State Treasurer

Terms To Know

Conveyance

A legal transfer of property ownership from one party to another.

Revert

To return the land back to its original owner, in this case, the state.

Fair Market Value

The price a property would sell for between willing buyers and sellers.

Limits and Unknowns

• If the town uses the land for any purpose other than parking, ownership returns to the state.
• The specific location or size of the parcel is described by a deed reference but not detailed in this summary text.

Official Summary Text

To amend a prior conveyance of state land to the town of Stratford to permit the parcel to be sold, transferred or leased.

Current Bill Text

Substitute House Bill No. 5580

Special Act No. 26-21

AN ACT AMENDING A PRIOR CONVEYANCE OF A PARCEL OF
STATE LAND TO THE TOWN OF STRATFORD TO PERMIT THE
PARCEL TO BE SOLD, TRANSFERRED OR LEASED.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:

Section 1. Section 2 of public act 18-154 is amended to read as follows
(Effective from passage):
(a) Notwithstanding [a] certain [restriction] restrictions contained in
a Quit Claim Deed from the State of Connecticut, Highway
Commissioner to the town of Stratford, dated August, 1968, and
recorded in the Town of Stratford Land Records in Volume 445, pages
670 to 672, inclusive, that the parcel of land described in said deed shall
be used for "school purposes only" and is not to be sold, said [restriction
is] restrictions are released, relinquished and [has] have no further force
and effect. The town of Stratford may use said parcel for [municipal]
parking purposes only , and may sell, transfer or lease said parcel for
parking purposes. If at any time the parcel is used for any other purpose,
the parcel shall revert to the state of Connecticut. Any sale or lease of
said parcels shall be made at a cost equal to the fair market value of said
parcels, as approved by Commissioner of Transportation prior to the
actual sale or lease. Any moneys received by the town of Stratford from
any such sale, transfer or lease of said parcel shall be paid promptly to
Substitute House Bill No. 5580

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the State Treasurer and deposited in the Special Transportation Fund.
(b) The State Treasurer shall execute and deliver any deed or
instrument necessary to implement the provisions of this section, which
deed or instrument shall include provisions to carry out the purposes of
subsection (a) of this section. The Commissioner of Transportation shall
have the sole responsibility for all other incidents of the release of the
restrictions under this section.