Bill Text: CT HB05411 | 2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

Connecticut House Bill 5411 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: An Act Authorizing An Agricultural Conservation Easement On The Lands Of The Southbury Training School.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-03-05 - Referred to Joint Committee on Environment [HB05411 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2012-HB05411-Introduced.html


General Assembly		*Raised Bill No. 5411*
*February Session, 2012*		LCO No. 1891
		01891_______ENV
Referred to Committee on Environment
Introduced by:
(ENV)

AN ACT AUTHORIZING AN AGRICULTURAL CONSERVATION EASEMENT ON THE LANDS OF THE SOUTHBURY TRAINING SCHOOL.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

Section 1. (Effective from passage) (a) Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes, the Commissioner of Developmental Services, in consultation with the Commissioner of Agriculture, may grant to a nonprofit organization, as defined in Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, or any subsequent corresponding internal revenue code of the United States, as amended from time to time, an easement on land located in the towns of Southbury and Roxbury and known as the Southbury Training School. The mission of such nonprofit organization shall include, but not be limited to, the permanent protection of agricultural lands for agricultural use. Such easement shall allow for the conservation of the subject land as agricultural land and shall authorize such nonprofit organization to lease any portion of the subject land to one or more persons for the purpose of engaging in agriculture, as described in section 1-1 of the general statutes. Such easement shall have an area as recommended by the Farmland Preservation Advisory Board in a report submitted pursuant to special act 09-8. Such easement shall be subject to the approval of the State Properties Review Board.

(b) Such nonprofit organization shall use such easement for the purpose of preserving such land as agricultural land. If such nonprofit organization:

(1) Does not use such easement for said purpose; or

(2) Does not retain ownership of all of such easement, the easement shall revert to the state of Connecticut.

(c) Such easement shall be granted (1) subject to the right of the state to (A) pass and repass over and on such easement of land for the purpose of accessing lands of the state, and (B) place and maintain over, under and on said easement of land existing and future utilities, including, but not limited to, electrical, water, sanitary, sewer, telecommunications and gas, and (2) subject to any rights and easements with regard to such easement that the state deems necessary to meet its governmental obligations.

(d) The State Properties Review Board shall complete its review of such easement of land not less than thirty days after it receives a proposed agreement from the Department of Developmental Services.


This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1	from passage	New section

Statement of Purpose:

To permanently preserve certain farmland while enabling the state to retain ownership of such land.

[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not underlined.]