Chap. 17 AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE WATER COMMISSIONERS OF THE Certain acts missioners con- Board of water Quorum. Vacancy in board. Commissioners to fix water rates, etc. Income, how applied. Net surplus, how to be used, etc. TOWN OF SPENCER. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. All acts and proceedings of the town of Spencer and its board of water commissioners from and after April seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, in so far as said acts and proceedings might be invalid by reason of the absence of any general or special laws authorizing the election of water commissioners in said town, are hereby confirmed and made valid. SECTION 2. The said town shall, at its next annual town meeting or at a meeting called for the purpose subsequent to the passage of this act, elect by ballot three persons to constitute a board of water commissioners, one of whom shall hold office until the expiration of three years, one until the expiration of two years, and one until the expiration of one year, from the annual town meeting in the current year; and, at each annual town meeting held thereafter, one such commissioner shall be elected by ballot for a term of three years. All the authority granted to said town by this act, or by any general or special law pertaining to the management and operation of its water department, shall be vested in the said board of commissioners who shall be subject, however, to such instructions, rules and regulations as said town may impose by its vote. A majority of said commissioners shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. Any vacancy occurring in said board from any cause may be filled for the remainder of the unexpired term by said town at any town meeting called for the purpose. Any such vacancy may be filled temporarily by a majority vote of the selectmen and remaining members of the board of water commissioners, and the person so appointed shall hold office until said town fills the vacancy in the manner specified herein. SECTION 3. Said board of commissioners shall fix just and equitable prices and rates for the use of water and shall prescribe the time and manner of payment. The income of the water works shall be applied to defraying all operating expenses, interest charges and payments on the principal as they become due upon any bonds or notes issued for water purposes under authority of any general or special law. If there should be a net surplus remaining after providing for the aforesaid charges, it shall be used for such new construction as the town may authorize by its vote; and in case a surplus should remain after payment for such new construction the water rates shall be reduced proportionately. Annual report. Said board shall annually, and as often as said town may require, render a report of the condition of the works under its charge and an account of its doings, including an account of receipts and expenditures. SECTION 4. This act shall take effect upon its passage. AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE TOWN OF GREENFIELD TO APPRO- Chap. 18 PRIATE MONEY TO PROVIDE FACILITIES FOR HOLDING IN SAID TOWN DURING THE CURRENT YEAR THE ANNUAL EXPEDITIONARY FORCES. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Greenfield facilities for reunion of one SECTION 1. The town of Greenfield may appropriate a Town of sum, not exceeding fifteen hundred dollars, for the purpose may appropriof providing proper facilities for public entertainment at the sum of money time of the annual reunion of the one hundred and fourth to provide United States infantry veterans association, American ex- holding annual peditionary forces, to be held in said town during the current hundred and year and of paying the expenses incidental to such entertain- fourth United ment. Money so appropriated shall be expended under the veterans direction and control of the board of selectmen of said town. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved February 8, 1928. States infantry association, AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE TOWN OF HOLBROOK TO BORROW Chap. 19 MONEY FOR SCHOOL PURPOSES. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: purposes. School Loan, SECTION 1. For the purpose of remodelling the Sumner Town of high school building and for constructing an addition to said Holbrook may building, such addition to increase the floor space of said for school building, and for originally equipping and furnishing such addition, the town of Holbrook may borrow from time to time, within a period of five years from the passage of this act, such sums as may be necessary, not exceeding, in the aggregate, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars, and may issue bonds or notes therefor, which shall bear on their face the words, Holbrook School Loan, Act of 1928. Each Holbrook authorized issue shall constitute a separate loan, and such Act of 1928. loans shall be paid in not more than fifteen years from their dates, but no issue shall be authorized under this act unless a sum equal to an amount not less than ten per cent of such authorized issue is voted for the same purpose to be raised by the tax levy of the year when authorized. Two thirds of the indebtedness incurred under this act shall be in excess of the statutory limit, but shall, except as provided herein, be subject to chapter forty-four of the General Laws, exclusive of the proviso inserted in section seven of said chapter by chapter three hundred and thirty-eight of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-three. SECTION 2. Chapter one hundred and forty-three of the Repeal. acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-seven is hereby repealed. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved February 8, 1928. Chap. 20 AN ACT PENALIZING THE POSSESSION OF CERTAIN WILD BIRDS. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: G. L. 131, § 26, amended. Penalty for taking, killing or possessing certain wild birds. Section twenty-six of chapter one hundred and thirty-one of the General Laws is hereby amended by striking out, in the first and fourth lines, the word "or" and inserting in place thereof in each instance a comma, - by inserting after the word "kills" in the first line the words: or has in possession, and by adding at the end thereof the words:or had in possession, so as to read as follows: Section 26. Whoever takes, kills or has in possession a Bartramian sandpiper, also called upland plover, a wood duck, a Carolina or mourning dove, a gull or a tern shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten nor more than fifty dollars for every bird so taken, killed or had in possession. Approved February 8, 1928. Chap. 21 AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE REVOCATION OF LOBSTER LICENSES G. L. 130, Revocation of lobster licenses on second or subsequent convictions of violations of fish and game laws. Proviso. ON SECOND OR SUBSEQUENT CONVICTIONS OF VIOLATIONS Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Chapter one hundred and thirty of the General Laws is hereby amended by striking out section one hundred and five and inserting in place thereof the following:- Section 105. If a licensee under the preceding section is convicted a second or subsequent time within a period of three years of violation of the same or a different provision of the fish and game laws he shall immediately surrender his license to the officer who secured the second conviction, and the license shall be void, and the licensee shall not receive another such license until after the expiration of one year from the date of the second conviction; provided, that a conviction of having short lobsters in possession shall not be counted as a conviction under this section unless more than two per cent in count of the lobsters in possession by the licensee were short lobsters. Approved February 8, 1928. Chap. 22 AN ACT REVIVING THE INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL MISSIONARY The International Medical Mis sionary Society revived. SOCIETY. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: The International Medical Missionary Society, a corporation dissolved by chapter one hundred and fifty-seven of the Special Acts of nineteen hundred and seventeen, is hereby revived with the same powers, duties and obligations as if said chapter had not been passed. Approved February 8, 1928. AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE TOWN OF HINGHAM TO LEASE Chap. 23 CERTAIN PARK LAND TO THE HINGHAM YACHT CLUB. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: lease certain Hingham SECTION 1. The planning board or board of park com- Town of missioners of the town of Hingham may, if and as authorized Hingham may by vote of the town, lease to the Hingham Yacht Club for park land to the purposes for which it was incorporated, such part of land Yacht Club. taken by said town under section three of chapter forty-five of the General Laws, as is now occupied by the building and runways of said club and which is not needed by said town for the purposes for which it was taken, for terms not exceeding five years each. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its acceptance Effective upon by the inhabitants of the town of Hingham at its next annual acceptance, etc. town meeting, but not otherwise; provided, that, for the Proviso. purpose only of such acceptance, it shall take effect upon its Approved February 8, 1928. passage. AN ACT PROHIBITING THE USE OF TRAPS, NETS OR SNARES FOR THE TAKING OR KILLING OF ANY WILD BIRD AND Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Chap. 24 etc., prohibited. Chapter one hundred and thirty-one of the General Laws G. L. 131, is hereby amended by striking out section fifty-seven and $ 57, amended. inserting in place thereof the following:- Section 57. Who- Taking or killing of ever constructs, sets, places, maintains or tends a trap, net wild birds by or snare for the purpose of taking or killing a wild bird, or use of traps, whoever pursues, shoots at or kills any wild bird with a swivel or pivot gun, or by the use of a torch, jack or artificial light, or by the aid or use of any vehicle, boat or floating device propelled by steam, naphtha, gasoline, electricity, compressed air or similar motive power, or by mechanical means other than sails, oars or paddles, except by the aid or use of such a boat or floating device when at anchor, shall Penalty. be punished by a fine of not less than five nor more than fifty dollars. Approved February 8, 1928. AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE KEEPING OF RECORDS OF MOTOR Chap. 25 VEHICLES LEASED UPON A MILEAGE BASIS. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: section after Chapter ninety of the General Laws is hereby amended G. L. 90, new by inserting after section thirty-two A, inserted by section 32A. one of chapter two hundred and thirty-seven of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-five, the following new section: -Section 32B. Every owner, proprietor, person in control Owner, etc., to keep record of or keeper of an establishment leasing motor vehicles for motor vehicles compensation computed upon a mileage basis shall keep or mileage basis. leased upon a Contents. To be open to inspection of police. cause to be kept in a book a proper record of every motor vehicle so leased by him. Said record shall contain the registration number and the name of the maker of the motor vehicle so leased, the time the motor vehicle left the establishment and the time of its return, and the signature in full of the lessee in his own handwriting, his residence and the number of his operator's license. Said record shall be open at all times to the inspection of the police. Approved February 8, 1928. Chap. 26 AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A RESERVE Town of Winthrop may establish a reserve police force. POLICE FORCE IN THE TOWN OF WINTHROP. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. The town of Winthrop may establish a reserve police force consisting of not more than five members, and appointments thereto shall, subject to chapter thirtyone of the General Laws, be made in the same manner as appointments to the regular police force of said town. The chief of police of said town may assign the members of such reserve force to duty in said town whenever and for such To have powers length of time as he may deem necessary; and when on duty the members of said reserve force shall have all the powers and duties of members of the regular police force of said town. and duties of members of regular police force. Submission to voters, etc. SECTION 2. This act may be submitted to the voters of said town for acceptance at any annual town meeting, and, for the purpose of such submission only, shall take effect upon its passage. The vote shall be taken in answer to the following question which shall be placed upon the official ballot to be used for the election of town officers at said meeting: "Shall an act passed by the general court in the year nineteen hundred and twenty-eight, entitled 'An Act providing for the establishment of a reserve police force in the town of Winthrop', be accepted?" If a majority of the votes in answer to said question are in the affirmative, this act shall thereupon take full effect, but not otherwise. Approved February 8, 1928. Chap. 27 AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE PREPARATION BY THE COMMISSIONER G. L. 168, 54, cl. Fifteenth, OF BANKS OF THE ANNUAL LIST OF INVESTMENTS FOR SAV- Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Clause Fifteenth of section fifty-four of chapter one hundred etc., amended. and sixty-eight of the General Laws, as amended by section three of chapter three hundred and fifty-one of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-six, is hereby further amended by striking out, in the first line of said clause, the word "February" and inserting in place thereof the word: — July, Commissioner of banks to prepare so as to read as follows:- Fifteenth, Annually, not later than July first, the commissioner shall prepare a list of all the |