304
Acts, 1952.
G. L. (Ter.
Ed.), 90,
§
11,
amended.
Certificates
of registration.
— Chap.
378.
farmer which are registered under a general distinguishing
mark as provided herein shall not in any civil action for damages be deemed a trespasser on the highway by reason of the
fact that at the time of the accident the said vehicle was a
greater distance than a radius of ten miles from the farm.
Section 2. Section 1 1 of said chapter 90, as appearing in
the Tercentenary Edition, is hereby amended by striking out
the first sentence and inserting in place thereof the following
Every person operating a motor vehicle shall
sentence
have the certificate of registration for the vehicle and of the
trailers, if any, and his Hcense to operate, upon his person or
in the vehicle, in some easily accessible place, except that the
certificates of registration of dealers and farmers need not so
:
—
be carried.
G. L. (Ter.
Ed.), 64A,
§ 7, etc.,
amended.
Section 3. The first sentence of section 7 of chapter 64
of the General Laws, as amended by section 2 of chapter 492
of the acts of 1948, is hereby further amended by inserting
whether
after the word "highways", in line 5, the words:
or not such vehicles are registered under the provisions of secAny
so as to read as follows:
tion five of chapter ninety,
person who shall buy any fuel, on which an excise has been
paid or is chargeable under this chapter, and shall consume
the same in any manner except in the operation of motor vehicles upon or over highways, whether or not such vehicles are
registered under the provisions of section five of chapter
ninety, shall be reimbursed the amount of said excise in the
manner and subject to the conditions herein provided.
—
Excise, sale
free from,
etc.
Reimbursement.
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Approved
Chap. S7S An Act changing the bag
limits
May
81, 1952.
and legal lengths of
CERTAIN FISH.
Be
Edt' 13^'
§ 45,' etc.,'
amended.
it
enacted,
etc.,
as follows:
Section 1. Section 45 of chapter 131 of the General Laws
is hereby amended by striking out the table, as amended by
gectiou 1 of chapter 109 of the acts of 1948, and inserting in
place thereof the following table
:
—
Minimum
Spectes.
Daily
Legal
Open
Length
Season.
(Inches).
to Feb. 15, inclusive
Black bass
July
White perch
April 15 to Feb.
15,
inclusive
Pickerel
April 15 to Feb.
15,
inclusive
1
Pike perch
April 15 to Feb.
15,
inclusive
Salmon
April 15 to July
31.
inclusive
Yellow perch
April 15 to Feb.
15,
inclusive
Northern pike
April 15 to Feb.
15,
inclusive
Horned pout
April 15 to Feb.
15,
inclusive
.
Acts, 1952.
—Chap.
305
379.
Section 2. The next to the last paragraph of said section g. l. (Ter.
45 of said chapter 131, as amended by section 2 of said chap- f Is.'eu;^'
ter 109, is hereby further amended by striking out, in Hne 3, amended.
the word "twenty" and inserting in place thereof the Avord:
thirty,
so as to read as follows:
No person shall in any one calendar day, except as pro- Taking of
vided in section forty-eight, take or have in his possession rlguk'ted!*''
more than thirty fish in the aggregate of all kinds, exclusive
of com.mon sunfish specifically known as Eupomotis Gihhosus,
bluegills, suckers, eels and carp, from the inland waters of
the commonwealth.
Approved May SI, 1952.
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An Act
relative to membership in the state-boston
RETIREMENT SYSTEM.
Be
it
enacted,
etc.,
as follows:
Section 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of chapter
five hundred and twenty of the acts of nineteen hundred and
forty-seven, any employee of the city of Boston or of the
county of Suffolk, who, on the effective date of this act is a
member of the Boston retirement system established under
chapter five hundred and twenty-one of the acts of nineteen
hundred and twenty-two, may become a member of the
State-Boston retirement system by filing with the Boston
retirement board, within and not later than sixty days from
the effective date of this act, an application on a prescribed
form for membership in the State-Boston retirement system.
No person becoming a member of the State-Boston retirement
system under this section shall be entitled to full credit for
service rendered prior to the date of his becoming such member unless, within six months from the effective date of this
act or such further time as the Boston retirement board, in
the event of obvious hardship, may, in its discretion, allow,
he shall have paid into the annuity savings fund of the StateBoston retirement system, in one sum, or in instalments upon
such terms and conditions as said retirement board may prescribe, make-up payments of a sum equal to the difference
between the contributions he has made to the Boston retirement system since January first, nineteen hundred and fortyseven, and the contributions he would have made had he
joined the State-Boston retirement system on that date,
together with regular interest thereon.
Upon
the completion
make-up payments such member shall be entitled to
all creditable service to which he would have been entitled
had he joined the State-Boston retirement system when first
eligible to become a member.
Section 2. Notwithstanding the provisions of said chapter five hundred and twenty, any person who on February
first, nineteen hundred and twenty-three, was, and continof such
uously since then has been, an employee as defined in paragraph (6) of section two of chapter five hundred and twentyone of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-two, as
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