Session Laws

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

Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, the town of Brewster is hereby authorized to transfer the care, custody, management and control of a portion of the land shown on Brewster Assessor's Map 46 as Parcels 4 and 14, which parcels were taken for conservation purposes by said town on January eleventh, nineteen hundred and sixty-seven, to the board of water commissioners to be used for watershed protection, public water supply purposes, passive recreation, and conservation purposes; and further, by transferring by mutual agreement the remainder of said land to the recreation commission to be used for recreation purposes, limited to the construction of athletic fields with ancillary buildings and structures not to exceed six hundred square feet in size, for playing baseball, softball, soccer, and other sports with support parking and sanitary facilities in consultation with said board of water commissioners; and to transfer the sum of twelve thousand dollars from Article 41 of nineteen hundred and eighty-nine annual town meeting, and to raise and appropriate eight thousand dollars for engineering, survey, and design of ball fields, to be spent under the supervision of the board of selectmen; and further, in order to provide comparable or equivalent land for conservation purposes as required by the town's self help contracts with the division of conservation services, to transfer the care, custody, management and control of the land shown as Article 2 and Article 4 on a plan of land entitled "A sketch showing Articles 1, 2, 3 and 4 of special town meeting March 9, 1987 prepared for Land Acquisition Committee February 9, 1987, 1 inch = 400 feet, Nickerson and Berger, Inc., Registered Land Surveyors and Professional Engineers, 260 Cranberry Highway, Orleans, MA", which plan is recorded at the registry of deeds in the county of Barnstable in Plan Book 432, Pages 58 and 59, from the board of selectmen to the conservation commission, to be used for conservation, watershed protection, and passive recreation purposes under the provisions of section eight C of chapter forty of the General Laws, or to take any other necessary action relative thereto.