Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

SECTION 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, including, without limiting the generality hereof, the provisions of chapter 30B of the General Laws, the city of Boston may convey certain park land located in the city, for nominal consideration, to the Boston Housing Authority for housing, roadway, utility, infrastructure and related purposes. The land shall be within the area shown on a plan of land entitled "Subdivision Plan of Orchard Park", dated October 13, 1998, revised October 26, 1998, drawn by Judith Nitsch Engineering, Inc. and shall amount to .45 acres more or less.

SECTION 2. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, including, without limiting the generality hereof, the provisions of chapter 30B of the General Laws, the city of Boston may convey certain park land located in the city, for nominal consideration, to the Boston Housing Authority for housing, roadway, utility, infrastructure and related purposes. The parcel is described in a deed to the city of Boston, recorded with the Suffolk Registry of Deeds in Book 1547, Page 293.

SECTION 3. In consideration for the conveyances authorized in sections 1 and 2, the Boston Housing Authority shall convey to the city of Boston certain land located in the Orchard Park public housing development, notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, including, without limiting the generality hereof, the provisions of chapter 30B of the General Laws. The land shall be within the area shown as "Orchard Park" on the plan described in section 1 and shall amount to at least the same amount of land as is transferred pursuant to sections 1 and 2.

SECTION 4. This act shall take effect upon its passage.