Chapter 030

2020 -- H 7022 Enacted 06/26/2020

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RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- GENERAL POWERS -- PRUDENCE ISLAND SCHOOL FOUNDATION

Introduced By: Representatives Donovan, Shekarchi, Canario, Cortvriend, and Edwards

Date Introduced: January 09, 2020

It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:

SECTION 1. Chapter 45-2 of the General Laws entitled "General Powers" is hereby

amended by adding thereto the following section:

45-2-5.2. Prudence Island school foundation.

Notwithstanding any provision of the general laws to the contrary, including, but not

limited to, the provisions of § 45-2-6, the town council of the town of Portsmouth is hereby

authorized and permitted to exercise its discretion to give, grant, bargain, sell, transfer and/or

convey to the Prudence Island School Foundation, all of its right, title, and interest in and to those

certain lots or parcels of land, including and together with all buildings and improvements located

thereon, situated on Prudence Island in the town of Portsmouth, Rhode Island, within the plat

entitled "Plat of Prudence Park" and numbered as Lots 824, 825, 826 and 827 as recorded in the

office of the Portsmouth Land Evidence Records in Plan Book 1 on pages 2 and 3 and on pages 6

and 7 (the "property") to the Prudence Island School Foundation, a Rhode Island nonprofit

corporation, subject to those rights of reversion set forth in the deed recorded on July 2, 1896, in

Book 20 on Page 403 and the deed recorded on November 26, 1997, in Book 516 on Page 114 of

the Portsmouth Land Evidence Records, if the property shall cease to be used for educational

purposes.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage.

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