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. The metropolitan district commission is hereby authorized and directed to prohibit the use of motor vehicles on Memorial Drive between Hingham street and Eliot Circle in the city of Cambridge from the hours of eleven o'clock ante meridiem to seven o'clock post meridiem on Sundays from the last Sunday in April through the second Sunday in November.

SECTION 2. The metropolitan district commission is hereby authorized and directed to prohibit or otherwise regulate the use of motor vehicles on Memorial Drive between Western avenue and Hingham street in the city of Cambridge on Sundays from the hours of eleven o'clock ante meridiem to seven o'clock post meridiem from the last Sunday in April through the second Sunday in November.

SECTION 3. The metropolitan district commission is hereby authorized, upon receipt of a request to that effect from the city council of the city of Cambridge, to suspend on any given Sunday the prohibitions as set forth in sections one and two of the use of motor vehicles on Memorial Drive in the city of Cambridge.

SECTION 4. Notwithstanding any of the foregoing provisions of this act, the metropolitan district commission may at its discretion suspend any authorized closings, if in the judgement of said commission such authorized closing poses a threat to public safety and should any emergency arise in which said commission in its judgement deems it necessary to alter the authorized closure.