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-nine of chapter one hundred and forty of the General Laws or any other provision of law to the contrary, the annual fees to be charged by the town of Shrewsbury for the issuance of licenses for dogs shall be set by the board of selectmen of said town.

SECTION 2. 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 Shrewsbury, 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 to Worcester county.

SECTION 3. Notwithstanding the provisions of section one hundred and sixty-one of said chapter one hundred and forty or any other general or special law to the contrary, whoever suffers lose by the worrying, maiming or killing of his livestock or fowls by dogs shall be, after investigation as provided in said section one hundred and sixty-one, paid from the town treasury of said town, as provided by said section one hundred and sixty-one.