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H4823 • 2025

An Act authorizing the commissioner of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance to convey a certain parcel of land in the town of Tewksbury

An Act authorizing the commissioner of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance to convey a certain parcel of land in the town of Tewksbury

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State Administration and Regulatory Oversight (J)
Last action
2025-12-11
Official status
Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means
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An Act authorizing the commissioner of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance to convey a certain parcel of land in the town of Tewksbury

An Act authorizing the commissioner of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance to convey a certain parcel of land in the town of Tewksbury Status: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means

What This Bill Does

  • An Act authorizing the commissioner of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance to convey a certain parcel of land in the town of Tewksbury Status: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means

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Bill History

  1. 2025-12-11 House

    Reported from the committee on State Administration and Regulatory Oversight

  2. 2025-12-11 House

    New draft of H3408

  3. 2025-12-11 House

    Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means

Official Summary Text

An Act authorizing the commissioner of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance to convey a certain parcel of land in the town of Tewksbury
Status:
Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means

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Bill H.4823

SECTION 1. Notwithstanding sections 32 to 37, inclusive, of chapter 7C of the General Laws, or any general or special law to the contrary, the commissioner of capital asset management and maintenance may convey to the town of Tewksbury, for use as a cemetery, a certain parcel of land being approximately 11.019 acres previously conveyed to the department of public health by deed recorded November 23, 1979 at the Middlesex north registry of deeds in book 2396, page 686 and shown as “parcel 62-19-3" on a plan of land on file with the division of capital asset management and maintenance entitled “Approval not Required Plan in the Town of Tewksbury, Massachusetts Middlesex County Owned by Commonwealth of Massachusetts Prepared for the Division of Capital Asset Management on Behalf of the Department of Conservation and Recreation”, dated September 12, 2012 and prepared by Nitsch Engineering, Inc.

(b) Prior to finalizing the transaction or making the conveyance authorized in subsection (a), the division of capital asset management and maintenance may make minor modifications to the area and plan in order to carry out the purposes of this section. The commissioner of capital asset management and maintenance shall establish the fair market value of the property for both the highest and best use of the property as currently encumbered and for the purposes described in subsection (a).

(c) Consideration for the parcel described in subsection (a) shall be fair market value of the parcel or the fair market value for the restricted use. If the consideration for the parcel conveyed in subsection (a) is less than fair market value, the commissioner shall place notice in the central register of the conveyance identifying the amount of the transaction and the difference between the calculated value and the price received.

SECTION 2. (a) Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, the commissioner of capital asset management and maintenance, may convey to the town of Tewksbury, for recreational use, a certain parcel of land 0.517 acres and previously conveyed to the department of public health by deed recorded November 23, 1979 at the Middlesex north registry of deeds at book 2396, page 686 and shown as parcel “62-19-2" on a plan of land on file with the division of capital asset management and maintenance entitled “Approval not Required Plan in the Town of Tewksbury, Massachusetts Middlesex County Owned by Commonwealth of Massachusetts Prepared for the Division of Capital Asset Management on Behalf of the Department of Conservation and Recreation”, dated September 12, 2012 and prepared by Nitsch Engineering, Inc.

(b) Prior to finalizing the transaction or making the conveyance authorized in, the division of capital asset management and maintenance may make minor modifications to the area and plan in order to carry out the purposes of this section. The commissioner of capital asset management and maintenance shall establish the value of the property for both the highest and best use of the property as currently encumbered and for the purposes described in subsection (a).

(c) Consideration for the parcel described in subsection (a) shall be the fair market value of the parcel or the fair market value for the restricted use. If the consideration for the parcel conveyed in subsection (a) is less than fair market value, the commissioner shall place notice in the central register of the conveyance identifying the amount of the transaction and the difference between the calculated value and price received.

SECTION 3. The town of Tewksbury shall assume all reasonable costs associated with engineering, surveys, appraisals, deed preparation and other expenses deemed necessary by the commissioner of capital asset management and maintenance for the conveyances authorized in sections 1 and 2.

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