AN ACT CONCERNING LAND THAT IS SUBJECT TO A CONSERVATION RESTRICTION HELD BY A NONPROFIT LAND-HOLDING ORGANIZATION.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

Section 1. Section 47-27 of the 2016 supplement to the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2016):

(a) No length of possession, use or occupancy of land belonging to a railroad or street railway corporation and used for its corporate purposes shall create or continue any right in or to such land. No length of possession, use or occupancy by a railroad or street railway corporation of land belonging to another shall create or continue any right in or to such land.

(b) No length of possession, use or occupancy of land belonging to a nonprofit land-holding organization or of the portion of any parcel of land subject to a conservation restriction, as defined in section 47-42a, held by a nonprofit land-holding organization shall create or continue any right in or to such land. No length of possession, use or occupancy of land subject to a conservation restriction, as defined in section 47-42a, held by a nonprofit land-holding organization shall have the effect of terminating or modifying the conservation restriction. As used in this subsection, "nonprofit land-holding organization" means a nonprofit corporation incorporated pursuant to chapter 602 or any predecessor statute thereto, having as one of its principal purposes the conservation and preservation of land.

(c) No length of possession, use or occupancy of land classified as class I or class II land under section 25-37c and belonging to an investor-owned water company shall create or continue any right in or to such land. The provisions of this subsection shall not affect any right in or to such land acquired by length of possession, use or occupancy pursuant to law prior to October 1, 2002. As used in this subsection, "water company" has the same meaning as provided in section 16-1.