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 any general or special law to the contrary, police officers of the city of Somerville shall have authority to exercise their powers, including the power to enforce the ordinances of said city, within any building or structure or any other property to which the public has a right of access which are owned or controlled by the housing authority of the city of Somerville.

The dog control officer of the city of Somerville shall have authority to enforce chapter thirteen of the code of ordinances of said city and any other laws or ordinances relative to the control of dogs, within any building or structure or any other property to which the public has a right of access which are owned or controlled by the housing authority of the city of Somerville.

The housing authority of the city of Somerville may promulgate and amend from time to time, in conformity with section fifty-nine of chapter two hundred and seventy-two of the General Laws, rules and regulations for the government or use of the streets, ways or other property to which the public has a right of access and which are owned or controlled by said housing authority. Any such rule or regulation may include a penalty for the violation thereof and said penalty shall not exceed the maximum amount then prescribed for violation of a general ordinance of the city of Somerville. Violations of rules or regulations promulgated hereunder shall be prosecuted in the same manner as are violations of ordinances of the city of Somerville.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.