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proximately 400 feet wide in a north-south direction and not more than
1190 feet long in an east-west direction to be located by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, if the option is exercised, within a parcel
of land containing approximately 19.5 acres, bounded and described as
follows:
Beginning at the intersection of a stone wall lying approximately 100
feet north of the Essex County Industrial Farm Barracks and the present westerly property line of the Essex County Tuberculosis Hospital,
thence running in a southerly direction along said property line approximately 492 feet, thence turning in a westerly direction and running
approximately 1220 feet to a stone bound located on the westerly property line of the Essex County Industrial Farm, thence turning in a northerly direction and running approximately 675 feet along the property
line to a stone bound, thence running in an easterly direction approximately 1250 feet to the present Essex County Tuberculosis Hospital
property line, thence turning in a southerly direction and running approximately 285 feet along said property line to the point of beginning,
all as shown as Parcel E on a plan dated June 7, 1966, prepared by
Cleverdon, Varney and Pike.
Said option shall be granted only if Massachusetts Institute of Technology agrees, if said option is exercised, to relocate the Industrial Farm
Barracks, on other land of Essex county, including reconnection to all
utilities, at a cost not to exceed eighteen thousand dollars.
SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved September 2, 1966.
Chap. 599. A N ACT PROVIDING FOR THE TEMPORARY REGISTRATION
OF CERTAIN NURSES TO PRACTICE NURSING.
Whereas, The deferred operation of this act would tend, in part, to
defeat its purpose, which is to partially relieve, as soon as may be, the
shortage of nursing services in the hospitals and public health agencies
of the commonwealth, therefore it is hereby declared to be an emergency law, necessary for the immediate preservation of the pubhc health
and convenience.
Be it enacted, etc., as follows:
SECTION 1. Chapter 112 of the General Laws is hereby amended by
inserting after section 76 the following section: —
Section 76A. The board may, at its discretion, certify as authorized
to practice professional nursing any person who furnishes proof, satisfactory to the board, that he was graduated from an approved school of
nursing and that he was registered to practice professional nursing in
another jurisdiction. Such certification (1) shall be valid for one year
only from the date of the issuance of a certificate thereof, but may be
renewed for not more than one additional consecutive year, (2) shall be
subject to such rules and regulations as the board may prescribe, including the requirement that such certificate holders shall practice
under the supervision of a registered nurse and (3) shall, notwithstanding,
the provisions of section eighty, entitle such certificate holder to engage
in the practice of nursing, subject to such limitations upon the capacity
in which he may practice as the board may prescribe, while such certification or renewal is in effect, but only in hospitals or other health care
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institutions licensed by the commonwealth, in hospitals maintained by
the federal government, the commonwealth or any of its political subdivisions, or in conjunction with other public health agencies. The fee
for certification under this section shall be ten dollars and for renewal one
dollar.
SECTION 2. The first sentence of section 80 of said chapter 112, as
appearing in section 1 of chapter 595 of the acts of 1957, is hereby
amended by striking out all after the word "jurisdiction", in line 10,
and inserting in place thereof the following: — may attend upon a
nonresident of the commonwealth temporarily abiding here.
SECTION 3. Said chapter 112 is hereby further amended by striking
out section 81B, as most recently amended by section 12 of chapter 693
of the acts of 1960, and inserting in place thereof the following section: —
Section 81B. The board may approve, for the purposes of section
seventy-four, seventy-four A or seventy-six A, any school for nurses or
for practical nurses, as the case may be, in another state or country
which maintains standards substantially the same as those required for
an approved school in this commonwealth, and which, in the case of a
school in another state, is approved by the board for nurses or for
practical nurses, or corresponding body, of the state in which the school
is situated.
Approved September 2, 1966.
Chap. 600.
AN ACT TO CORRECT AN EXISTING INEQUITY RELATIVE TO
T H E C O M P U T A T I O N O F R E T I R E M E N T ALLOWANCES O F C E R TAIN EMPLOYEES.
Whereas, The deferred operation of this act would tend to defeat its
purpose, which is to correct forthwith an inequity which exists relative
to the computation of the retirement allowances of certain members of
the retirement system, therefore it is hereby declared to be an emergency
law, necessary for the immediate preservation of the public convenience.
Be it enacted, etc., as follows:
Notwithstanding any contrary provision of law, the provisions of
paragraph (a) of subdivision (2) of section five of chapter thirty-two of
the General Laws, as most recently amended by section one of chapter
two hundred and seventy-four of the acts of nineteen hundred and
sixty-six, shall apply to any member of a contributory retirement system for public employees who was classified in either Group 1 or Group 2
who retired between May eleventh, nineteen hundred and sixty-six and
June first, nineteen hundred and sixty-six, both dates inclusive.
Approved September 2, 1966.
Chap. 601.
A N ACT ESTABLISHING A PROGRAM OF FINANCIAL AID
F O R V I E T N A M V E T E R A N S A T T E N D I N G STATE I N S T I T U T I O N S
OF HIGHER EDUCATION.
Whereas, The deferred operation of this act would tend to defeat its
purpose, which is, in part, to provide free tuition for Vietnam veterans
enrolled in state institutions of higher education, commencing with the
forthcoming academic year in the month of September, therefore it is