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 31 of chapter 111 of the General Laws, as most recently amended by section 2 of chapter 565 of the acts of 1982, is hereby further amended by striking out the first paragraph and inserting in place thereof the following paragraph:-

Boards of health may make reasonable health regulations. All regulations made by boards of health under this chapter shall be published once in a newspaper published in the town, and such publication shall be notice to all persons. Whoever, himself or by his servant or agent, or as the servant or agent of any other person or any firm or corporation, violates any reasonable health regulation, made under authority of this section, for which no penalty by way of fine or imprisonment, or both, is provided by law, shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars.