2005 Connecticut Code - Sec. 19a-645. (Formerly Sec. 19a-162). Taking of land to enlarge hospitals.
Sec. 19a-645. (Formerly Sec. 19a-162). Taking of land to enlarge hospitals. A
nonprofit hospital, licensed by the Department of Public Health, which provides lodging,
care and treatment to members of the public, and which wishes to enlarge its public
facilities by adding contiguous land and buildings thereon, if any, the title to which it
cannot otherwise acquire, may prefer a complaint for the right to take such land to the
superior court for the judicial district in which such land is located, provided such hospital shall have received the approval of the Office of Health Care Access under section
19a-639 or 19a-640. Said court shall appoint a committee of three disinterested persons,
who, after examining the premises and hearing the parties, shall report to the court as
to the necessity and propriety of such enlargement and as to the quantity, boundaries
and value of the land and buildings thereon, if any, which they deem proper to be taken
for such purpose and the damages resulting from such taking. If such committee reports
that such enlargement is necessary and proper and the court accepts such report, the
decision of said court thereon shall have the effect of a judgment and execution may be
issued thereon accordingly, in favor of the person to whom damages may be assessed,
for the amount thereof; and, on payment thereof, the title to the land and buildings
thereon, if any, for such purpose shall be vested in the complainant, but such land and
buildings thereon, if any, shall not be taken until such damages are paid to such owner
or deposited with said court, for such owner's use, within thirty days after such report
is accepted. If such application is denied, the owner of the land shall recover costs of
the applicant, to be taxed by said court, which may issue execution therefor. Land so
taken shall be held by such hospital and used only for the public purpose stated in its
complaint to the superior court. No land dedicated or otherwise reserved as open space
or park land or for other recreational purposes and no land belonging to any town, city
or borough shall be taken under the provisions of this section.
History: P.A. 77-614 replaced department of health with department of health services, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 81-465 deleted reference to Sec. 19-73n, repealed by the same act; P.A. 82-472 deleted obsolete reference to counties; Sec. 19-73t transferred to Sec. 19a-162 in 1983; P.A. 89-371 added reference to Secs. 19a-167 to 19a-167g, inclusive; P.A. 93-381 replaced department of health services with department of public health and addiction services, effective July 1, 1993; May 25 Sp. Sess. P.A. 94-1 removed obsolete language, effective July 1, 1994; P.A. 95-257 replaced Commissioner and Department of Public Health and Addiction Services with Commissioner and Department of Public Health and replaced Commission on Hospitals and Health Care with Office of Health Care Access, effective July 1, 1995; Sec. 19a-162 transferred to Sec. 19a-645 in 1997.
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