2020 -- H 7022 | |
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STATE OF RHODE ISLAND | |
IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY | |
JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2020 | |
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A N A C T | |
RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- GENERAL POWERS -- PRUDENCE ISLAND | |
SCHOOL FOUNDATION | |
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Introduced By: Representatives Donovan, Shekarchi, Canario, Cortvriend, and Edwards | |
Date Introduced: January 09, 2020 | |
Referred To: House Judiciary | |
It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: | |
1 | SECTION 1. Chapter 45-2 of the General Laws entitled "General Powers" is hereby |
2 | amended by adding thereto the following section: |
3 | 45-2-5.2. Prudence Island school foundation. |
4 | Notwithstanding any provision of the general laws to the contrary, including, but not |
5 | limited to, the provisions of ยง 45-2-6, the town council of the town of Portsmouth is hereby |
6 | authorized and permitted to exercise its discretion to give, grant, bargain, sell, transfer and/or |
7 | convey to the Prudence Island School Foundation, all of its right, title and interest in and to those |
8 | certain lots or parcels of land, including and together with all buildings and improvements located |
9 | thereon, situated on Prudence Island in the town of Portsmouth, Rhode Island, within the plat |
10 | entitled "Plat of Prudence Park" and numbered as Lots 824, 825, 826 and 827 as recorded in the |
11 | office of the Portsmouth Land Evidence Records in Plan Book 1 on pages 2 and 3 and on pages 6 |
12 | and 7 (the "property") to the Prudence Island School Foundation, a Rhode Island nonprofit |
13 | corporation, subject to those rights of reversion set forth in the deed recorded on July 2, 1896, in |
14 | Book 20 on Page 403 and the deed recorded on November 26, 1997, in Book 516 on Page 114 of |
15 | the Portsmouth Land Evidence Records, if the property shall cease to be used for educational |
16 | purposes. |
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1 | SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage. |
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EXPLANATION | |
BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL | |
OF | |
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RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- GENERAL POWERS -- PRUDENCE ISLAND | |
SCHOOL FOUNDATION | |
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1 | This act would enable the town council of Portsmouth to transfer and/or convey parcels |
2 | of land owned by the town on Prudence Island to the Prudence Island School Foundation to be |
3 | used for educational purposes. |
4 | This act would take effect upon passage. |
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