Bill Text: MA H3283 | 2009-2010 | 186th General Court | Introduced


Bill Title: The use of highways funds for converting private ways to public streets

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-01-20 - Public Hearing date 9/10 at 11:00 AM in Hearing Room B1 [H3283 Detail]

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The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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PRESENTED BY:

James J. O'Day

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To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General
                Court assembled:

                The undersigned legislators and/or citizens respectfully petition for the passage of the accompanying bill:

An Act concerning the conversion of private ways to public ways.

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PETITION OF:

 

Name:

District/Address:

James J. O'Day

14th Worcester District


 

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand and Nine

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An Act concerning the conversion of private ways to public ways.



                Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

Section thirty-one of chapter eighty-one of the General Laws is hereby amended by inserting the following at the conclusion of the first sentence of subsection (a) thereof, after the words “in such city or town” the following:—
“,as that term is defined below, plus, in any city which has adopted an official map under chapter forty-one, section eighty-one E of the General Laws, the total mileage, to the nearest one hundredth of a mile, of private ways shown on such official map, so long as the additional amount generated by the inclusion of said mileage shall be expended by any such city solely for the purpose of converting such private ways to public streets.”

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