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 any general or special law to the contrary, the town of Pembroke may transfer the care, custody and control of a portion of a certain parcel of land described in section 2 from the Pembroke conservation commission to the Pembroke school committee for the purpose of school construction in exchange for the land described in section 3, such land as described in section 3 having been transferred from the school committee to the conservation commission for town forest purposes by a unanimous vote under Article 21 of the October 15, 2002 Pembroke special town meeting.

SECTION 2. The land to be transferred to the school committee under section 1 is described as follows:

The land shown as "Town Forest Property Transferred to School 21,113 S.F. (+/-)" on sketch entitled "Pembroke Middle School, Pembroke, MA, Land Transfer Plan" prepared by Larson Associates, Inc. on file with the town clerk, being a portion of the town land described in a deed recorded with the Plymouth registry of deeds in book 1954, page 483.

SECTION 3. The land transferred to the conservation commission by vote of the October 15, 2002 Pembroke special town meeting is described as follows:

The land shown as "School Property Transferred to Town Forest 21,118 S.F. (+/-)" on a sketch entitled "Pembroke Middle School, Pembroke, MA, Land Transfer Plan" prepared by Larson Associates, Inc. on file with the town clerk, being a portion of the town land described in a deed recorded with the Plymouth registry of deeds in book 3215, page 29;.

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