Section 12. On or before January first, nineteen hundred and ninety-six, the corporation shall submit to the governor and the clerks of the house of representatives and the senate and the house and senate committees on ways and means, a report detailing the state of the zoos, their operation and management, and financial conditions. The report shall be studied with the purpose of determining whether the condition of the zoos has been improved by the corporation or whether the care, control and custody should return to the commonwealth, on behalf of the commission.

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