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CHAPTER 39 AN ACT PROVIDING FOR AN AUDIBLE WARNING SIGNAL WHEN GASOLINE TRUCKS ARE IN REVERSE.

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. Section 7 of chapter 90 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 1984 Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting after the first paragraph the following paragraph:-

Every commercial motor vehicle, or trailer weighing, with its load, more than twelve thousand pounds, and used to deliver gasoline or other flammable material, shall be equipped with an audible warning system when the vehicle's transmission is in reverse.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect on January first, nineteen hundred and ninety-one.

Approved May 5, 1987.