Resolve, Directing the Conveyance of Conservation Land in Rockport

Preamble. The Constitution of Maine, Article IX, Section 23 requires that real estate held by the State for conservation or recreation purposes may not be reduced or its uses substantially altered except on the vote of 2/3 of all members elected to each House.

Whereas,  the Department of Conservation jointly with the Land for Maine's Future Board enforces terms and conditions according to which certain other cooperating entities as defined in the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 5, section 6201 that acquire land with funding from the Land for Maine's Future Fund may sell or exchange lands or change the use of the land only with the approval of the Legislature by 2/3 of all members elected to each House in accordance with Title 5, section 6209; now, therefore, be it

Sec. 1. Land for Maine's Future Board and Director of Bureau of Parks and Lands authorized, but not directed, to allow Coastal Mountains Land Trust to convey certain interests in land in the Town of Rockport, in Knox County. Resolved: That the Land for Maine's Future Board as established by the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 5, section 12004-G, subsection 29 and the Director of the Bureau of Parks and Lands within the Department of Conservation may authorize Coastal Mountains Land Trust to convey by quitclaim deed portions of certain interests in the Brown tract in the Ragged Mountain Preserve located in the Town of Rockport in Knox County, further described in the Knox County Registry of Deeds in Book 3657, Pages 63 to 67 and acquired with funding from the Land for Maine's Future Fund as established by Title 5, section 6203.

A condition of this conveyance is that the land be conveyed in exchange for a parcel of greater acreage and greater conservation value, according to the terms of the project agreement between the Bureau of Parks and Lands and Coastal Mountains Land Trust recorded at the Knox County Registry of Deeds in Book 3738, Page 73.