2006 -- S 2464 AS AMENDED

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STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2006

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A N A C T

RELATING TO AIRPORT AND LANDING FIELDS

     Introduced By: Senator Dennis L. Algiere

     Date Introduced: February 09, 2006

     Referred To: Senate Commerce, Housing & Municipal Government

It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:

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     SECTION 1. Chapter 1-2 of the General Laws entitled "Airports and Landing Fields" is

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hereby amended by adding thereto the following section:

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     1-2-7.1. Relating to airport and landing fields. – (a) The Rhode Island Airport

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corporation has jurisdiction over the state airports and airport facilities, and the general assembly

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recognizes that the safe and efficient operation of the airports and airport facilities is of

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paramount importance to the citizens of the state of Rhode Island. The general assembly has

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found and hereby declares that it is in the public interest and essential to the welfare and well-

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being of the citizens of the state for the Rhode Island Airport Corporation to lease or grant

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concessions of real property not necessary from time to time for airport use to state or municipal

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governmental authorities to enable such governmental authorities to carry out their governmental

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functions and purposes.

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     (b) The Rhode Island Airport Corporation together with the Rhode Island department of

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transportation is hereby authorized to lease to the town of Westerly that certain parcel of real

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property located at the Westerly Airport, consisting of approximately one hundred and twenty-

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two thousand nine hundred and sixty-four (122,964) square feet situated easterly of Airport Road

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in the town of Westerly, county of Washington, state of Rhode Island, and described as follows:

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Beginning at a railroad spike set on a point of tangency a bearing of S 77 degrees 49 minutes 49

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seconds E and a radial distance of two hundred ten and forty hundredths (210.40) feet from

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Station 44-25.15 as shown on Rhode Island State Highway Plat No. 1159 at the northwesterly

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corner of the herein-described parcel;

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     thence N 88 degrees 20 minutes 30 seconds E along a line forty (40) feet southerly and

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parallel with the northerly Westerly Airport property line of an access road leading to the

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Westerly Airport terminal a distance of six hundred ninety-four and seventeen hundredths

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(694.17) feet to an iron pin with cap set at a point of curvature;

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     thence proceeding easterly bearing southerly along a curve with a radius of fifteen and

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zero hundredths (15.00) feet with a central angle of 144 degrees 45 minutes 45 seconds, with a

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chord bearing of S 19 degrees 16 minutes 38 seconds E and a chord distance of twenty-eight and

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fifty-nine hundredths (28.59) feet, an arc length of thirty-seven and ninety hundredths (37.90) feet

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to an iron pin with cap set at a point of tangency;

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     thence S 53 degrees 06 minutes 15 seconds W along access road a distance of three

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hundred thirty-nine and seventy-one hundredths (339.71) feet to an iron pin with cap set at a point

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of curvature;

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     thence proceeding southwesterly bearing westerly along said access road along a curve

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with a radius of two hundred twenty and zero hundredths (220.00) feet, a central angle of 81

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degrees 40 minutes 24 seconds, with a chord bearing of N 86 degrees 03 minutes 33 seconds W

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and a chord distance of two hundred eighty-seven and seventy two hundredths (287.72) feet, an

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arc distance of three hundred thirteen and sixty hundredths (313.60) feet to an iron pin with cap

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set at a point of tangency;

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     thence N 45 degrees 13 minutes 21 seconds W along said access road a distance of two

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hundred twenty-two and seventy-four hundredths (222.74) feet to an iron pin with a cap set at a

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point of curvature;

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     thence proceeding northwesterly bearing northerly along a curve with a radius of twenty

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and zero hundredths (20.00) feet, a central angle of 133 degrees 33 minutes 51 seconds, a chord

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bearing of N 21 degrees 33 minutes 34 seconds E and a chord distance of thirty-six and seventy-

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six hundredths (36.76) feet, an arc distance of forty-six and sixty-two hundredths (46.62) feet to

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the point and place of beginning.

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     The herein described New Lot A contains 122,964 square feet of land or 2.823 acres be

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the same, more or less.

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     The herein-described New Lot A is shown on that plan entitled "Minor Subdivision,

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Proposed Westerly Police Station, out of AP 108, Lot 19, Westerly Airport, Westerly, Rhode

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Island, scale 1"=40", dated 5/21/05, prepared for the Rhode Island Airport Corporation by Bryant

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Associates, Inc., Engineers and Surveyors, Thomas D. Drury, Jr., PLS together with all structures

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and improvements located and/or to be built thereon, for the purpose of constructing and

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maintaining a police station, for a period not in excess of ninety-nine (99) years.

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     SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage.

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EXPLANATION

BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

OF

A N A C T

RELATING TO AIRPORT AND LANDING FIELDS

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     This act would authorize the Rhode Island Airport Corporation to lease the land at the

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Westerly Airport land to the town of Westerly for a period not to exceed ninety-nine (99) years.

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     This act would take effect upon passage.

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