Old Pathology Building and Dead House at Central State Hospital; leases; use of real estate; conditions of long term lease

Ind. Code § 4-20.5-7-20

in effect

Sec. 20. (a) As used in this section, "real estate and the improvements" refers to the real estate and the improvements generally known as the Old Pathology Building and the Dead House that are held by Central State Hospital and that are described as follows: Part of the Southwest Quarter of Section 4, Township 15 North, Range 3 East, Marion County, Indiana, and being more particularly described as follows: Beginning at a point on the North line of said quarter section being North 88 degrees 20 minutes 04 seconds East (assumed bearing) 615.07 feet from the Northwest corner thereof; thence continue North 88 degrees 20 minutes 04 seconds East along said North line 298.15 feet; thence South 0 degrees 25 minutes 14 seconds West 986.30 feet; thence North 88 degrees 39 minutes 18 seconds West 184.05 feet; thence North 6 degrees 15 minutes 40 seconds West 979.13 feet to the point of beginning and containing 5.423 acres, more or less. Subject to right-of-way for Vermont Street off the entire North side thereof and all other legal easements and rights-of-way of record. Also subject to and together with an easement for ingress and egress being a part of the Southwest Quarter of Section 4, Township 15 North, Range 3 East, Marion County, Indiana, and being more particularly described as follows: Beginning at a point on the North line of said quarter section being North 88 degrees 20 minutes 04 seconds East (assumed bearing) 823.22 feet from the Northwest corner thereof; thence continue North 88 degrees 20 minutes 04 seconds East along said North line 90.00 feet; thence South 0 degrees 25 minutes 14 seconds West 61.00 feet; thence South 57 degrees 55 minutes 21 seconds West 71.07 feet; thence South 0 degrees 25 minutes 14 seconds West 886.15 feet; thence North 88 degrees 39 minutes 18 seconds West 30.00 feet; thence North 0 degrees 25 minutes 14 seconds East 368.57 feet; thence North 67 degrees 14 minutes 53 seconds West 155.70 feet; thence North 6 degrees 15 minutes 40 seconds West 25.00 feet; thence South 75 degrees 48 minutes 59 seconds East 151.27 feet; thence North 0 degrees 25 minutes 14 seconds East 565.00 feet to the point of beginning and containing in said easement 0.905 acres, more or less, subject to all legal easements and rights-of-way of record. (b) Notwithstanding any other law, the appropriate officials, acting on behalf and in the name of the state, shall enter into a lease with the Indiana Medical History Museum, Inc., or its successor, at the sole option of the Indiana Medical History Museum, Inc., at the expiration of the lease described in P.L.245-1986, SECTION 2 (notwithstanding its repeal) or at any time during the lease described in P.L.245-1986, SECTION 2 (notwithstanding its repeal), leasing the real estate and the improvements. (c) The Indiana Medical History Museum, Inc., shall use the real estate and the improvements for public charitable, educational, scientific, and general museum purposes. (d) The lease described in subsection (b) must: (1) be for a period of ninety-nine (99) years at a rental of one dollar ($1) per year with the option to renew the lease for an additional ninety-nine (99) years at a rental of one dollar ($1) per year; (2) allow the Indiana Medical History Museum, Inc., to purchase services from Central State Hospital at the cost of those services to Central State Hospital (the lease must provide a method of determining these costs; however, the method may be amended with the consent of the parties); (3) provide that the Indiana Medical History Museum, Inc., is responsible for the maintenance of the real estate and the improvements; (4) allow the Indiana Medical History Museum, Inc., to relocate the improvements generally known as the Old Pathology Building and the Dead House to a new site that is generally available to the people of Indiana; (5) require the Indiana Medical History Museum, Inc., to take title to any improvement described in subdivision (4) that is transferred to a site that is not owned by the state or an instrumentality of the state, subject to a covenant, enforceable by the state, restricting the use of the improvement to a charitable, educational, scientific, and general museum purpose; (6) provide for the termination of the lease with respect to any improvement described in subdivision (4) that is moved to a site that is not owned by the state or an instrumentality of the state; (7) provide for the termination of the lease with respect to the real estate described in subsection (a) after all improvements described in subdivision (4) are transferred to another site, regardless of whether the site is owned by the state or an instrumentality of the state; (8) allow the state to terminate the lease if any of the real estate and improvements are subleased without the consent of the state or used for a purpose other than a public charitable, educational, scientific, or general museum purpose; and (9) permit amendments at any time with the consent of all parties to the lease. As added by P.L.20-2010, SEC.3. Amended by P.L.220-2011, SEC.42.

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