The hospital land, being a tract of land owned by the state, located in the town of Burrillville, at and adjacent to Wallum Pond, with all the buildings thereon and all the furniture, furnishings, fittings, fixtures, apparatus, farming utensils, and equipment and property of all descriptions belonging to the state now or hereafter contained in those buildings or on that land, shall be in the care and custody of the department of behavioral healthcare, developmental disabilities and hospitals.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 40.1-3-4