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CHAPTER 450 AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE LICENSING AND KEEPING OF DOGS IN THE TOWN OF EAST LONGMEADOW.

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 provision 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 in the town of East Longmeadow, shall be conducted in the office of 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 East Longmeadow 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 East Longmeadow 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 treasury of said town and shall not thereafter be paid over by the town treasurer to Hampden county.

SECTION 4. Notwithstanding the provisions of section one hundred and sixty-one of said chapter one hundred and forty or any other provision of law to the contrary, whoever suffers loss as described in said section one hundred and sixty-one shall be reimbursed for such loss by the town of East Longmeadow, rather than by the treasurer of Hampden county.

SECTION 5. Notwithstanding the provisions of section one hundred and seventy-one of said chapter one hundred and forty or any other provision of law to the contrary, the owner or keeper of a dog which has done damage to livestock or fowls shall be liable for such damage to the town of East Longmeadow rather than to Hampden county.

SECTION 6. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved October 31, 1985.