SENATE, No. 37

SECTION 1. The commissioner of the division of capital asset management and maintenance, in consultation with the commissioner of the department of mental health, in accordance with chapter 300 of the acts of 1962 notwithstanding section 40H of chapter 7 of the General Laws,  are hereby authorized upon the initiation of construction of the department of mental health’s Massachusetts psychiatric hospital to convey to the community healthlink, a charitable corporation organized under the laws of the commonwealth, a parcel of land and the building thereon, known as the Worcester youth guidance center, located on the grounds of Worcester state hospital, to be used by the corporation for the provision of mental health services to children and adults who reside in central Massachusetts and who have serious mental illness; and shall include the access road known as dorista goldsberry drive to the point where it connects to hospital road; and sufficient land to provide for parking and appurtenant uses extending in an easterly direction from the perimeter of the aforementioned building to hospital road and to the west, south and north at least three hundred feet in each direction from the perimeter of the building.  The exact acreage and boundaries of the property to be conveyed as described above shall be determined by the commissioner, in consultation with the department of mental health, after completion of a survey.

SECTION 2. The jurisdiction in and the title to the parcel of  land authorized to be conveyed in section one shall revert to and revest in the commonwealth whenever the parcel of land ceases to be used for the purpose of providing mental health services, as provided in section one.

SECTION 3. The price paid by the grantee for the conveyance pursuant to this act shall be determined by the commissioner of the division of capital asset management and maintenance based on an independent appraisal. The inspector general shall review and approve the appraisal, and said review shall include a review of the methodology utilized for said appraisal.  In no instance in which the commonwealth maintains responsibility for maintaining the disposition parcel or portion shall the terms provide for payment of less than the annual maintenance costs. All monies paid to the commonwealth as a result of this act shall be deposited into the general fund.

SECTION 4. Community healthlink shall be responsible, at its sole cost and expense, to obtain and connect new public and private utility services to the center and to disconnect, remove and or sever all utility connections into the Worcester state hospital infrastructure facility. 

SECTION 5. Community healthlink shall be responsible, at its sole cost and expense, for snowplowing and other maintenance of so much of any access road, parking lot, landscaping and grounds as the commissioner of the department of mental health may specify from time to time.

SECTION 6.  Community healthlink shall pay for the cost of all utility severance studies; appraisals, surveys and deed preparation for the conveyance authorized by this act as considered necessary by the commissioner. 

SECTION 7. The commissioner of the division of capital asset management and maintenance is hereby authorized to retain rights of way or easements across, on, under or above land conveyed pursuant to this act for access, egress, utilities, drainage, and other purposes in such locations and on such terms and conditions as said commissioner deems reasonable or appropriate. The commissioner of the division of capital asset management and maintenance is hereby authorized to grant to community healthlink such rights of way or easements across, on, under or above other commonwealth property for access, egress, utilities, drainage, and other purposes in such locations and on such terms and conditions as said commissioner deems reasonable or appropriate.