HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 2926 FILED ON: 2/18/2011
HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 3634
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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PRESENTED BY:
Kathi-Anne Reinstein
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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:
An Act relative to tolls on the Tobin/Mystic River Bridge and Sumner Tunnel
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PETITION OF:
Name: | District/Address: |
Kathi-Anne Reinstein | 16th Suffolk |
HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 2926 FILED ON: 2/18/2011
HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 3634
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
An Act relative to tolls on the Tobin/Mystic River Bridge and Sumner Tunnel
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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. Section 13 of chapter 6C of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2010 Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting after the word “Chelsea”, in line X, the following words:- , the city of Revere.
SECTION 2. Subsection (b) of said chapter 13 of said chapter 6C, as so appearing, is hereby amended by inserting after the first sentence the following sentence:-- The department shall establish a zone-based toll discount program for account holders who: (i) participate in the department’s electronic toll collection system, and (ii) are residents in municipalities north of the city of Boston that are located adjacent to U.S. Route 1; the program shall provided discounted tolls for private passenger vehicles for transit through the Sumner tunnel and the Ted Williams tunnel and over the Maurice J. Tobin Memorial Bridge based upon each municipality’s proximity to those toll collection sites.
