same shall be collected and paid into the treasury of the county of Essex and applied to meet the temporary loans issued by the county under section two or to pay said cost and expenses. etc., amended. Essex may of cost and Essex, East Loan, Act SECTION 2. Section four of said chapter two hundred 1926, 293, § 4, and ninety-three, as amended by section two of chapter fifty-seven of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-seven, is hereby further amended by inserting after the word "incurred" in the fourteenth line the words:- by said county, - by striking out, in the twenty-sixth and twenty-seventh lines, the words "such sum as may be necessary, not exceeding" and inserting in place thereof the words:- from time to time such sums as may be necessary, not exceeding, in the aggregate, — and by striking out, in the twenty-ninth and thirtieth lines, the words "Such loan shall be paid within one year from its date" and inserting in place thereof the following:Each authorized issue shall constitute a separate loan, and such loans shall be paid within one year from their dates, so as to read as follows: Section 4. For County of the purpose of paying the proportion of the said cost and ex- borrow to pay penses which is to be borne by the county of Essex, the county its proportion treasurer, with the approval of the county commissioners, expenses. may borrow such sum as may be necessary, not exceeding twelve thousand dollars, and may issue notes of the county therefor, which shall bear on their face the words, County of County of Essex, East Saugus Bridge Loan, Act of 1926. Such loan Saugus Bridge shall be paid within one year from its date. Such notes of 1926. shall be signed by the treasurer of the county and countersigned by a majority of the county commissioners. Said county may sell the said securities at public or private sale upon such terms and conditions as the county commissioners may deem proper, but not for less than their par value. Indebtedness incurred by said county hereunder shall, except as herein provided, be subject to chapter thirty-five of the General Laws. The town of Saugus, for the purpose of paying its proportion of said cost and expenses, may borrow from time to time such sums as may be necessary, not exceeding, in the aggregate, twelve thousand dollars, and may expenses. issue bonds or notes therefor, which shall bear on their face the words, Town of Saugus, East Saugus Bridge Loan, Act Town of Saugus, East of 1926. Each authorized issue shall constitute a separate Saugus Bridge loan, and such loans shall be paid within five years from their dates. The city of Lynn, for the purpose of paying its proportion of said cost and expenses, may borrow from time to time such sums as may be necessary, not exceeding, in the tion of cost aggregate, twelve thousand dollars, and may issue notes therefor, which shall bear on their face the words, City of City of Lynn, Lynn, East Saugus Bridge Loan, Act of 1926. Each au- Bridge Loan, thorized issue shall constitute a separate loan, and such loans shall be paid within one year from their dates. Indebtedness incurred by said city and by said town under this act shall be in excess of their respective statutory limits, but shall, except as herein provided, be subject to chapter forty Town of borrow to pay Saugus may its proportion of cost and of 1926. Loan, Act pay its propor and expenses. East Saugus Act of 1926. Proceeds of loans, disposition, etc. four of the General Laws. The proceeds of loans issued by said city and by said town shall be paid into the county treasury of said county and, together with the proceeds of loans issued by said county under this section, shall be applied to meet temporary loans of said county issued in accordance with section two or to pay said cost and expenses. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon its acceptance commissioners. by the county commissioners of the county of Essex; provided, that such acceptance occurs during the current year. Approved March 1, 1928. Submission to Chap. 76 AN ACT RELATIVE TO PLUMBERS' LICENSES AND CERTIFICATES G. L. 142, § 6, amended. Plumbers' licenses and certificates out commonwealth. Not transferable. OF REGISTRATION. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. Chapter one hundred and forty-two of the General Laws is hereby amended by striking out section six and inserting in place thereof the following:- Section 6. Licenses and certificates issued by the examiners shall be valid through- valid throughout the commonwealth, but shall not be assignable or transferable. The examiners shall forward to the board of health of each town, or to the inspector of buildings having control of the enforcement of regulations relative to plumbing in such town, the names and addresses of all persons in such town to whom such licenses have been granted. Licenses shall be issued for one year and may be renewed annually on or before May first upon payment of the required fee. Each holder of a master plumber's certificate or license shall register his name and business address with said inspector of buildings if he has such control, otherwise with the board of health, in the town wherein he desires to engage in business as a master plumber. Any such license or certificate may, after notice and hearing, be suspended or revoked by the examiners upon the violation by the holder thereof of any statute, ordinance, by-law, rule or regulation relative to plumbing, upon failure or refusal of the holder thereof to comply with the rules and requirements of the examiners, or for other sufficient cause. Term of Revocation of licenses. G. L. 142, § 7, amended. Notice to examiners of violation of statute. SECTION 2. Section seven of said chapter one hundred and forty-two is hereby amended by striking out all after the word "committed" in the fifth line and inserting in place thereof the words: shall give notice thereof to the examiners, so as to read as follows: Section 7. If in the opinion of such inspector of buildings, if any, otherwise of the board of health, of a town, the holder of a license or certificate violates any statute, ordinance, by-law, rule or regulation relative to plumbing, the said inspector or board of health of the town where such violation is committed shall give notice thereof to the examiners. Approved March 1, 1928. AN ACT EXEMPTING THE FISHING BOATS AND GEAR OF CER- Chap. 77 TAIN FISHERMEN FROM LOCAL TAXATION. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: cl. Twentieth, apparel, tools, SECTION 1. Clause twentieth of section five of chapter G. L. 59, § 5, fifty-nine of the General Laws is hereby amended by adding amended. at the end thereof the words: -; and boats, fishing gear and nets of persons engaged exclusively in commercial fishing and actually used by them in the prosecution of their business, not exceeding in any event three hundred dollars in value, - so as to read as follows:- Twentieth, The Wearing wearing apparel and farming utensils of every person; his ture, frihousehold furniture used in the dwelling which is the place etc., not exof his domicile not exceeding one thousand dollars in value; amount in and the necessary tools of a mechanic not exceeding three from local hundred dollars in value; and boats, fishing gear and nets taxation. of persons engaged exclusively in commercial fishing and actually used by them in the prosecution of their business, not exceeding in any event three hundred dollars in value. SECTION 2. This act shall be operative as of the first When day of April in the current year. Approved March 1, 1928. ceeding certain value exempt operative. AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE TOWN OF WINCHENDON TO ESTAB- Chap. 78 LISH A FIRE DEPARTMENT. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Winchendon partment. powers, The town of Winchendon may establish a fire department Town of to be under the control of a board of fire commissioners, may establish hereinafter called the board, consisting of three members a fire dewho shall annually be appointed by the selectmen, shall receive such salary as they may from time to time determine and may be removed by them for cause at any time after a hearing. The board shall have the rights, powers, duties Rights, and obligations given to chiefs of fire departments in certain duties, etc. towns by sections forty-two and forty-three of chapter forty-eight of the General Laws except that it shall annually appoint, in lieu of a deputy chief, a chief engineer who shall Chief engi have immediate charge and direction, under its supervision, of the property and apparatus used for and by the fire department and of the subordinate officers and other members of said department and shall, when present, have sole charge and direction thereof in extinguishing fires and protecting life and property in case of fire. Said chief engineer Salary. shall receive such salary as the board may from time to time determine with the approval of the selectmen and may Removal be removed by it for cause at any time after a hearing. Approved March 1, 1928. neer, duties. for cause. Chap. 79 AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE FILLING OF VACANCIES IN THE 1914, 687, § 47, amended. Vacancy in school committee of city of Revere, filling, term. Submission to city council, etc. SCHOOL COMMITTEE OF THE CITY OF REVERE. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. Chapter six hundred and eighty-seven of the acts of nineteen hundred and fourteen is hereby amended by striking out section forty-seven and inserting in place thereof the following:- Section 47. Whenever a vacancy shall occur in the membership of the school committee, the mayor shall call a joint meeting of the council and the school committee. The president of the council shall preside at such meeting, and the vacancy shall be filled by vote of a majority of all the members of the two bodies. The term of the person thus chosen shall continue until the qualification of his successor who shall be elected at the next biennial municipal election. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its acceptance during the current year by vote of the city council of said city, subject to the provisions of its charter, but not otherwise. Approved March 1, 1928. Chap. 80 AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE ISSUE BY TWO OR MORE FIRE IN G. L. 175, new section after § 117. SURANCE COMPANIES OF POLICIES OF SPRINKLER LEAKAGE Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. Chapter one hundred and seventy-five of the General Laws is hereby amended by inserting after section one hundred and seventeen, under the heading "Sprinkler Leakage Insurance", the following new section: Two or more fire insurance companies may issue policies of sprinkler leakage insurance, etc. Conditions relative to issue of policies. SPRINKLER LEAKAGE INSURANCE. Section 117A. Two or more stock or two or more mutual fire companies authorized to transact business under the eighth clause of section forty-seven may issue a single policy of insurance against loss or damage caused by any or all of the hazards specified in said eighth clause on property or interests in the commonwealth on which each company shall be severally liable for a specified percentage of any loss or claim. Such policy shall be executed by the duly authorized officers of each company subject to the provisions of section thirty-three in the case of a domestic company. No such policy shall be issued or delivered until a copy of the form thereof has been on file for thirty days with the commissioner, unless before the expiration of said thirty days he shall approve the form of the policy in writing; nor if the commissioner notifies the company in writing within thirty days that in his opinion the form of the policy does not comply with the laws of the commonwealth, specifying his reasons therefor, provided, that such action of the commissioner shall be subject to review by the supreme judicial court; nor unless it is headed by the corporate name of each company, nor unless it contains in substance the provisions numbered (1), (3), (4) and (5) in section one hundred and two A and a provision that any notice, sworn statement or proof of loss, which may be required by the provisions of said policy may be rendered, made or given to any one of such companies or to a duly authorized agent of any one of such companies, and that such notice, sworn statement or proof of loss so rendered, made or given shall be valid and binding as to all of such companies. visions appli section, ex The provisions of sections seventy-six, eighty, eighty-one, Certain proeighty-three and ninety-eight applicable to policies issued cable to policies by mutual fire companies, persons insured under such policies issued under and dividends and assessments thereunder shall apply to cept, etc. each policy issued under this section by mutual companies, to persons insured thereunder and to dividends and assessments thereunder, except as hereinafter provided. deemed to be The person insured under such a policy issued as aforesaid Person insured by mutual companies shall be deemed to be a member of member, etc. each such company while the policy is in force and entitled Entitled to one vote at the meetings of each company. to vote. notice, etc. The notice, endorsement and statement required by said Form of sections seventy-six, eighty and eighty-one, respectively, shall be in such form and in such place on the policy as the commissioner shall prescribe. The dividend under said section eighty and the contingent Dividends, how computed. mutual liability of the insured fixed by said sections eightyone and eighty-three in respect to each such company shall be computed or based on such proportion of the total premium for the policy as the amount insured by such company bears to the full amount insured under the policy. The notice to policyholders required by said section eighty Notice to shall be sent by each such company to the insured. The holders, etc. policyprovisions of said section ninety-eight shall apply to the application, if any, of the insured to each such company and to their by-laws. Nothing in this section shall be construed as affecting, Certain laws except as provided herein, any provision of law relative to not affected. the rights, powers, duties and liabilities of mutual fire companies and persons insured thereby. etc., amended. SECTION 2. Section eighteen of said chapter one hundred G. L. 175, § 18, and seventy-five, as amended by section two of chapter two hundred and eighty-five of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-four and by section two of chapter one hundred and sixty-four of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-five, is hereby further amended by striking out the first paragraph and inserting in place thereof the following:- Section 18. Insurance comEvery company shall conduct its business in the common- in corporate wealth in its corporate name, and all policies and contracts, other than contracts of corporate suretyship, issued by it shall, except as provided in sections one hundred and two A, panies to act name. |