Session Laws

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. Notwithstanding the provisions of section one hundred and thirty-seven of chapter one hundred and forty of the General Laws or any other provision of law to the contrary, the registering, numbering, describing and licensing of dogs if kept within the town of Pepperell shall be conducted by the town clerk of said town.

SECTION 2. Notwithstanding the provisions of section one hundred and thirty-nine of said chapter one hundred and forty or any other provision of law to the contrary, the annual fees to be charged by the town of Pepperell for the issuance of licenses for dogs shall be established by the board of selectmen of said town.

SECTION 3. Notwithstanding the provisions of section one hundred and forty-seven of said chapter one hundred and forty or any other provision of law to the contrary, all money received for licenses or from the sale of dog licenses by the town of Pepperell, or recovered as fines or penalties by said town under the provisions of said chapter one hundred and forty relating to dogs, shall be paid into the town treasury of said town and shall not thereafter be paid over to Middlesex county.

SECTION 4. Any and all costs which would otherwise be paid out of the Middlesex county dog fund shall not be paid by the county. The town of Pepperell shall be responsible for all costs and expenses relating to the regulation of dogs.