Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives
in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same,
as follows:
Section 75 of chapter 233 of the General Laws
is hereby amended by striking
out the last sentence, added by section 1 of chapter 190 of the acts of
1943, and inserting in place thereof the following sentence:- Printed
copies of rules and regulations purporting to be issued by
authority of any department, commission, board or officer of the
commonwealth or of any city or town having authority to adopt them, or
printed copies of any city ordinances or town by-laws, or printed copies of
the United States Code Annotated or the United States Code Service and all
federal regulations, and the
titles, chapters, subchapters, parts and sections thereof, shall be
admitted without certification or attestation, but, if their
genuineness is questioned, the court shall require such certification or
attestation thereof as it deems necessary.