Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary and pursuant to the provisions of Article 97 of the Amendments to the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the Town of Ipswich is hereby authorized to transfer the care, custody and control of a portion of a certain parcel of land, described below in Section 2, from the Ipswich Conservation Commission to the Ipswich Board of Selectmen for the purpose of granting a nonexclusive, perpetual driveway and utility easement solely for the benefit of the properties located at 92 Pineswamp Road (Essex South Registry of Deeds Book 12749, Page 597) and 94 Pineswamp Road, (Essex South Registry of Deeds Book 16310, Page 564), and to authorize the Board of Selectmen, with the approval of the Conservation Commission, to grant said easement upon such terms and conditions as it shall determine appropriate.

Section 2.  The land to be transferred to the Board of Selectmen under the provisions of section one is described as follows:

So much of town of owned land, described in Final Judgment recorded with the Essex South District Registry of Deeds Book 16769, Page 1, lying within the tract described below as beginning at the northwesterly corner on the southerly sideline of Pineswamp Road continuing easterly 55 feet along Pineswamp Road then turning S 06 degrees 08’ 26” E for a distance of 405 feet, thence 55 feet westerly; then turning North 06 degrees 08’ 26” W for a distance of 405 feet to the point beginning, as is currently occupied by an existing driveway providing access to the properties described above including a width of land not more than 10 feet to either side of the centerline of the existing driveway except as may be necessary to accommodate existing utility poles, and extending not more than 350 feet southerly from the southerly sideline of Pineswamp Road.

Section 3.  This act shall take effect upon its passage.