Resolve, Authorizing the Director of the Bureau of Parks and Lands To Convey a Parcel of Land in Augusta to the Maine Veterans Homes
Maine Legislature, Session 130, LD 0030
Committee: Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry
Sponsors: DILL, FECTEAU

Legislative Document
No. 30
S.P. 38
In Senate, January 13, 2021
Resolve, Authorizing the Director of the Bureau of Parks and Lands 
To Convey a Parcel of Land in Augusta to the Maine Veterans' 
Homes
Submitted by the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry pursuant to Joint 
Rule 204.
Received by the Secretary of the Senate on January 11, 2021.  Referred to the Committee 
on Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry pursuant to Joint Rule 308.2 and ordered printed.
DAREK M. GRANT
Secretary of the Senate
Presented by Senator DILL of Penobscot.
Cosponsored by Speaker FECTEAU of Biddeford.
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, certain real estate authorized for conveyance by this resolve is within the 
designations described in the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 12, section 598-A; and
Whereas, title to the parcel of land underlying the veterans' home in Augusta was 
conveyed by the former Department of Conservation, Bureau of Public Lands to the Maine 
Veterans' Homes in order to provide security for the issuance of bonds to finance the 
construction of a veterans' home in Aroostook County and in southern Maine and the 
legislation and deed related to that conveyance requires that the parcel revert back to the 
State when all bonds described in subsection 1 of the deed conveying the property to the 
Maine Veterans' Homes mature and all outstanding principal, interest and premium, if any, 
on the bonds has been paid to the bondholders and any indenture mortgage securing the 
bonds has been defeased; and
Whereas, once the parcel reverts, the Director of the Bureau of Parks and Lands 
within the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry is required to enter into 
a lease with the Maine Veterans' Homes under the same terms as the previous lease as long 
as the property is used for the purposes associated with the maintenance of a veterans' home 
in Augusta; and
Whereas, the Maine Veterans' Homes are constructing a new facility in Augusta and 
will not require the use of the existing veterans' home or require a lease for the existing 
veterans' home and operation of the existing veterans' home will cease and the Director of 
the Bureau of Parks and Lands within the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and 
Forestry would then be authorized to sell the land to the Maine Veterans' Homes, upon 
legislative authorization, to allow the Maine Veterans' Homes to sell the structure and the 
land it is on to a future buyer; and
Whereas, the Director of the Bureau of Parks and Lands within the Department of 
Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry may sell, lease or exchange lands with the approval 
of the Legislature in accordance with the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 12, sections 1814, 
1837 and 1851; now, therefore, be it
Sec. 1.  Director of the Bureau of Parks and Lands is authorized, but not 
directed, to convey certain land occupied by the Maine Veterans' Home 
located at the corner of Cony Road and Piggery Road in Augusta, Maine.  
Resolved: That the Director of the Bureau of Parks and Lands within the Department of 
Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry may convey, by quitclaim deed without covenant 
for an appraised fair market value that is the higher of 2 appraisals or the highest of more 
than 2 appraisals, one appraisal paid for the Bureau of Parks and Lands and the second paid 
for by the Maine Veterans' Homes, and on such other terms and conditions as the director 
may direct, a certain parcel of land with a total of approximately 8.9 acres, being the 
property that the veterans' home was constructed on, referred to in this resolve as "the 
property," situated at the corner of Cony Road and Piggery Road in Augusta, County of 
Kennebec, together with all appurtenant rights and easements located on that property, to 
the Maine Veterans' Homes.  In addition, the Director of the Bureau of Parks and Lands 
may grant approval, as required by Resolve 1989, chapter 29 and the deed conveying the 
property to the Maine Veterans' Homes, dated October 3, 1989 and recorded in the 
Kennebec County Registry of Deeds in Book 3626, page 281, to the Maine Veterans' 
Homes to sell its structure with the land it is located on at the corner of Cony Road and 
Piggery Road in Augusta, County of Kennebec.
SUMMARY
This resolve authorizes the Director of the Bureau of Parks and Lands within the 
Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry to transfer state property to the 
Maine Veterans' Homes.  In addition, as required by Resolve 1989, chapter 29 and the deed 
to the Maine Veterans' Homes, it grants approval to the Maine Veterans' Homes to sell its 
structure with the land it is located on at the corner of Cony Road and Piggery Road in 
Augusta, County of Kennebec.  The sale of the property constitutes a revocation of its 
designation as a nonreserved public land under the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 12, 
section 598-A.