SENATE
No. 439
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Senate, May 14, 1930.
The committee on Highways and Motor Vehicles, to
whom was recommitted the Senate Bill providing for
the regulation of the speed, weight and type of certain
trucks, trailers and semi-trailer units (Senate, No. 409),
report that the same ought to pass in a new draft entitled
“An Act further regulating the weight and speed of
certain vehicles operated on public ways and protecting
the serial numbers of trailers, semi-trailers and semitrailer units” (Senate, No. 439).
For the committee,
GEORGE G. MOYSE.
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No. 439.
Cijc Commontoealti) of
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Massachusetts
In the Year One Thousand Nine Hundred and Thirty.
An Act further regulating the Weight and Speed of
Certain Vehicles operated on Public Ways and
protecting the Serial Numbers of Trailers, Semitrailers and Semi-trailer Units.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the
authority of the same, as follows:
Section 1. Chapter eighty-five of the General
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2 Laws, as most recently amended in section thirty
3 by section two of chapter three hundred and
4 forty-two of the acts of nineteen hundred and
5 twenty-five, is hereby further amended by strik-6 ing out said section thirty and inserting in place
7 thereof the following:
8 Section 30. No vehicle shall travel or object
9 be moved, on any public way, which has any
10 device attached to or made a part of its wheels or
11 the rollers or other supports on which it rests,
12 which will injure the surface of the way; nor shall
13 any vehicle travel or object be moved, on any
14 public way, which weighs more than fourteen, or,
15 in case of a vehicle equipped with pneumatic
1G tires, more than fifteen, tons, without a permit
17 from the board or officer having charge of such
18 way, or, in case of a way determined by the depart-19 ment of public works to be a through route, from
20 the commissioner of public works; provided, that
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21 a semi-trailer unit or any other type of vehicle
22 provided with three axles when operated on such
23 through routes may weigh more than fourteen
24 tons, but not more than twenty tons, except when
25 operated under a permit from said commissioner.
26 No vehicle shall travel or object be moved on any
27 public way, outside of the metropolitan parks or
28 sewerage districts, the weight of which resting on
29 the surface of such way exceeds eight hundred
30 pounds upon any inch of the tire, roller or other
31 support, without such permit. Such permit may
32 limit the time within which it shall be in force and
33 the ways which may be used and may contain any
34 provisions or conditions necessary for the pro-35 tection of such ways from injury. If, in the
36 opinion of the board or officer having charge of
37 any public way, the travel or moving thereon at
38 any season of the year of any vehicle or object
39 which weighs more than ten thousand pounds
40 would cause injury to such way more serious
41 than the ordinary wear and tear which the type
42 of construction of such way is designed to with-43 stand, such board or officer may by regulation
44 prohibit such vehicle or object from passing over
45 such way during such season without a permit
46 therefor. All such regulations shall, when affect-47 ing ways which are determined by the depart-48 ment of public works to be through routes, be
49 subject to the approval of such department.
50 Such regulations shall be published and shall take
51 effect as provided in case of rules and orders under
52 section twenty-two of chapter forty and shall be
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53 posted in a conspicuous place at both ends of the
54 part of said way from which traffic is prohibited
55 thereby. Any person driving, operating or mov-
-56 ing a vehicle or object in violation of this section
57 or of any regulation adopted hereunder, or the
58 owner thereof, shall be liable in tort to the body
59 politic or corporate having charge of the way for
60 any injury to the way thereby caused. No person
61 shall operate a motor truck weighing more than
62 five tons at a speed in excess of twenty-five miles
63 an hour on any public way. All the aforesaid
64 limitations as to weight shall be inclusive of the
65 load.
Section 2. Chapter two hundred and sixty1
-2 six of the General Laws, as amended in section
3 one hundred and thirty-nine by section two of
4 chapter two hundred and thirty-seven of the acts
of nineteen hundred and twenty-five, is hereby
further amended by adding thereto the following:
The words “motor vehicle” as used in this
section shall, so far as apt, include trailer, semi-9 trailer and semi-trailer unit.
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Senate, May 14, 1930.
Passed to be engrossed.
Sent down for concurrence.
WILLIAM H. SANGER, Clerk.