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Acts, 1946.
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397, 398.
Chap. 397 An Act authorizing certain semi-trailer units and
MOTOR VEHICLES TO TRAVEL UPON PUBLIC WAYS WITHOUT
CERTAIN PERMITS.
Be
EdV'9o"ew
§i9A, addJd.
Certain motor
it
enacted,
etc.,
as follows:
Section 1. Chapter ninety of the General Laws is
hereby amended by inserting after section nineteen the
foUowing section
Section 19A.
Any provision of sec:
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JromplrmT^^ tion thirty of chapter eighty-five to the contrary notwithto travel
Standing, a motor vehicle having two axles, which vehicle
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with its load weighs not more than eighteen tons, and a
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semi-trailer unit or a motor vehicle having three axles, which
unit or vehicle with its load weighs not more than twentyfive tons, may travel on a public way without a permit as
required by said section thirty; provided, that no such
motor vehicle or semi-trailer unit, the weight on any axle
of which, measured at the ground, exceeds twenty-two
thousand four hundred pounds, or, in case of axles spaced
less than six feet apart, eighteen thousand pounds, shall so
travel without such a permit.
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SECTION 2. Scction thirty of chapter eighty-five of the
etc.',
fmended! General Laws, as most recently amended by section one of
chapter one hundred and seventy-one of the acts of nineteen
hundred and thirty-eight, is hereby further amended by
striking out, in the first hne, the word "No" and inserting
in place thereof the words
Except as provided in section
nineteen A of chapter ninety, no,
so that the first sentence
Exceptions.
will read as follows
Except as provided in section nineteen
of chapter ninety, no vehicle shall travel or object
be moved, on any public way, which has any device attached
to or made a part of its wheels or the rollers or other supports on which it rests, which will injure the surface of the
way; nor shall any vehicle travel or object be moved, on
any public way, which weighs more than fourteen tons, or,
in the case of a vehicle equipped with pneumatic tires, more
than fifteen tons, without a permit from the board or officer
having charge of such way, or, in case of a state highway,
or a way determined by the department of public works to
be a through route, from the commissioner of public works;
provided, that no such permit shall be required for the operation of a semi-trailer unit or a vehicle having three axles,
whether or not so equipped, which does not weigh more than
twenty tons.
Approved June S, 1946.
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Chap.S98 An Act providing for the acquiring of land and constructing A FENCE ALONG A PORTION OF THE BANK OF
THE NEPONSET RIVER IN THE HYDE PARK DISTRICT OF THE
CITY OF BOSTON.
Be
it
enacted,
Section
etc.,
as follows:
For the purpose of protecting lives of children in the area specified below and to prevent further loss
of life by drowning, the metropolitan district commission
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Acts, 1946.
— Chap.
413
399.
hereby authorized and directed to acquire a plot of land
and along the Neponset river described as follows
beginning at the point of intersection of the metropolitan
district commission boundary along the thread of the Neponset river with the southerly boundary of Fairmount avenue
easterly along that boundary for a distance of forty-five
feet; from there, turning southerly along the easterly bank
and roughly parallel to the shore line keeping inland approximately ten feet for a distance of about six hundred and fifty
feet to the northerly boundary of the right of way, owned
by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad;
from there, turning northerly and along said boundary
approximately sixty feet; then turning easterly and along the
metropolitan district commission boundary, a distance
approximately five hundred and ninety feet to point of beginning, comprising an area, one acre more or less; also the
metropolitan district commission is hereby authorized and
directed to construct a suitable protective fence along the
easterly bank of the Neponset river from Fairmount avenue
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to the railroad trestle.
Section 2. For said purposes the metropolitan district
commission may expend such sums, not exceeding, in the
aggregate, six thousand dollars, as may hereafter be approApproved June 3, 1946.
priated therefor.
An Act authorizing the making of harbor improvements Chav.^^^
BY the state department OF PUBLIC WORKS IN THE
TOWN OF PLYMOUTH.
Be
it
enacted,
etc,,
as follows:
Chapter six hundred and eighty-six of the acts of nineteen
hundred and forty-five is hereby amended by inserting after
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word "Falmouth" in the eighteenth line the following:
and (9) Protection of shores in the town of Plymouth,
so
as to read as follows
The department of public works is
hereby authorized to carry out, subject to appropriation and
the
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subject to the provisions of section eleven of chapter ninetyone of the General Laws, where applicable, the following
projects for the improvement of harbors and waterways in
the commonwealth
(1) Protection of shores in the town
of Duxbury; (2) Extension and repair of certain sea walls
and other shore protection in the town of Scituate; (3) Extension of the breakw^ater in the town of Winthrop; (4) Construction of a sea wall and placing of riprap for the protection
of the shore in the town of Yarmouth; (5) Construction of
a sea wall in the rear of Neptune road and Bennington street
in the East Boston district of the city of Boston; (6) Repair
of flood and hurricane damage and construction of additional
shore protection in the town of Barnstable; (7) Dredging of
an anchorage basin in Lynn harbor; and (8) Repair of hurricane and flood damage and construction of additional shore
protection in the town of Falmouth; and (9) Protection of
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