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ACTS, 1962. — CHAP. 250.
SECTION 2. Section 17 of said chapter 53, as most recently amended
by section 10 of chapter 334 of the acts of 1943, is hereby further amended
by adding at the end the following two sentences: —• The state secretary
shall not supply candidates for town offices directly with blank forms for
nomination. The city or town clerk shall not furnish blank forms for
the nomination of candidates for city or town office to any person other
than a candidate seeking such nomination or a person presenting the
signed authorization of a candidate to secure said forms on his behalf.
SECTION 3. Section 58 of said chapter 53, as appearing in the Tercentenary Edition, is hereby amended by adding at the end the following
sentence: — The city or town clerk shall not furnish such papers to any
person other than a candidate seeking nomination or a person presenting
the signed authorization of a candidate to secure said papers on his
behalf.
Approved March 20, 1962.
Chap. 250. A N ACT RELATIVE TO THE POWEES OF OFFICERS EMPOWERED
TO E N F O R C E T H E P R O V I S I O N S O F L A W R E G U L A T I N G M O T O R BOATS.
Be it enacted, etc., as follows:
Section 13 of chapter 90B of the General Laws, as appearing in section
2 of chapter 275 of the acts of 1960, is hereby amended by adding at the
end the following sentence: — Such officers may in the performance of
their duties enter upon and pass through or over private lands and property whether or not covered by water.
Approved March 22, 1962.
THE
COMMONWEALTH O P MASSACHUSETTS,
E X E C U T I V E D E P A R T M E N T , STATE H O U S E ,
BOSTON, M a r c h 22, 1962.
The -Honorable K E V I N H . W H I T E , Secretary of the Commonwealth,
Boston, Massachusetts.
DEAR M R . SECRETARY:—'I, John A. Volpe, pursuant
State
House,
to the provisions of Article XLVIII of the Amendments to the Constitution, the
Referendum II, Emergency Measures, hereby declare in my opinion the
immediate preservation of the public convenience requires that the law
being Chapter 250 of the Acts of 1962, entitled " A n Act Relative to
the Powers of Officers Empowered to Enforce the Provisions of Law
Regulating Motorboats" and the enactment of which received my approval on March 22, 1962, should take effect forthwith.
I further declare that in my opinion said law is an emergency law and
the facts constituting the emergency are as follows:
Postponement of the operation of this act for ninety days will prevent
its immediate application especially when the season of the year will
bring about the activities to which this act is intended to apply.
Respectfully submitted,
JOHN A. VOLPE,
Governor of the Commonwealth.
O F F I C E O F T H E SECRETARY, BOSTON, M a r c h 23, 1962.
I, Kevin H. White, Secretary of the Commonwealth, hereby certify
that the accompanying statement was filed in this office by His Ex-
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cellency the Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts at ten
o'clock and fifty minutes, A.M., on the above date, and in accordance
with Article Forty-eight of the Amendments to the Constitution said
chapter takes effect forthwith, being chapter two hundred and fifty of
the acts of nineteen hundred and sixty-two.
KEVIN H. W H I T E ,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
C h a p . 251.
A N A C T AUTHORIZING T H E METROPOLITAN DISTRICT COM-
M I S S I O N TO CONVEY TO THE TOWN OF WELLESLEY THE
UNUSED PARTS OF THE COCHITUATE AQUEDUCT AND LAND
RELATING THERETO IN SAID TOWN.
Be it enacted, etc., as follows:
SECTION 1. The metropolitan district commission is hereby authorized to convey to the town of Wellesley in consideration of the sum of
thirty-seven thousand dollars and other considerations, as provided in
section two, all the right, title and interest of whatever nature, kind or
description which the said commission may have in or pertaining to all
presently unused parts of the Cochituate aqueduct situated within said
town and extending from Dedman's Brook Waste Weir in an easterly direction through said town to the easterly bank of the Charles river in the
city of Newton and in or to any land and interest in land likewise situated
and relating to any such unused part, or at any time acquired for use in
connection therewith, as shown on plan entitled "Commonwealth of
Massachusetts Metropolitan Water Works Cochituate Aqueduct",
dated Dec. 31, 1897 and recorded with Norfolk Registry of Deeds, Plan
Book 20 as plan #923 (G, H, and I). The deed conveying said premises
shall contain provisions saving the commission harmless from all damages
which said town may sustain from any litigation involving the use of
any easements hereby conveyed.
SECTION 2. In order that the commission may continue to comply
with .the provisions of section one of chapter six hundred and three of the
acts of nineteen hundred and fifty, the town of Wellesley at its own expense shall construct, in accordance with plans to be approved by the
commission, and thereafter transfer to the commission free of all charges,
suitable facilities for discharging surplus water to the Charles river from
the commission's Sudbury aqueduct at Echo bridge in the town of
Needham.
SECTION 3. The town of Wellesley may utilize any part of the Cochituate aqueduct or land or interest in land at any time acquired under
section one of this act in any manner which may be necessary or desirable, for any general municipal purpose including but not limiting the
same for municipal light plant, utilities, drainage, highway, recreation
or storm drain purposes.
SECTION 4. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved March 22, 1962.