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. To provide for supplementing certain items in the general appropriations act, the sums set forth in section two are hereby appropriated for the several purposes and subject to the conditions specified in chapter one hundred and ten of the acts of nineteen hundred and ninety-three, including fund designations in said chapter one hundred and ten, and subject to the provisions of law regulating the disbursement of public funds and the conditions pertaining to appropriations in said chapter one hundred and ten, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ninety-four, the sums so appropriated shall be in addition to any amounts available for the purpose.

SECTION 2. `tm;keep=no `tcol=6,B4;c1=1,9,tu,T;c2=1,78,tuc;c3=1,78,tuc;c4=12,53,tfh1;c5=16,49,tu;c6=66,13,tur `tch `t+1 `tch;end `tc3 EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS. `tc2 Metropolitan District Commission. `tc1 Item `tc1 2440-2000 `tc4 `tc6 $1,151,220 `tc3 EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF TRANSPORTATION AND CONSTRUCTION. `tc2 Department of Highways. `tc1 6030-7201 `tc4 `tc6 $10,051,616 `tcol;end

SECTION 2A. To provide for certain unanticipated obligations of the commonwealth, to provide for an alteration of purpose for current appropriations, and to meet certain requirements of law, the sums set forth herein shall be appropriated from the General Fund unless specifically designated otherwise, and shall be for the several purposes and subject to the conditions specified herein and subject to the provisions of law regulating the disbursement of public funds and the conditions pertaining to appropriations in chapter one hundred and ten of the acts of nineteen hundred and ninety-three for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ninety-four. `tm;keep=no `tcol=6,B4;c1=1,9,tu,T;c2=1,78,tuc;c3=1,78,tuc;c4=12,53,tfh1;c5=16,49,tu;c6=66,13,tur `tch `t+1 `tch;end `tc3 TREASURER AND RECEIVER GENERAL. `tc2 Office of the Treasurer and Receiver General. `tc1 Item `tc1 0611-5502 `tc4 For a payment of additional municipal stabilization local aid, to be distributed from the Local Aid Fund in accordance with the schedule included in section three of this act; provided, that, notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, receipt of additional municipal stabilization local aid shall in no way affect a municipality's obligations regarding education financing and shall be available for unrestricted use by the municipalities `tc6 $15,000,000 `tc5 Local Aid Fund 100.0% `tc3 EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF TRANSPORTATION AND CONSTRUCTION. `tc2 Department of Highways. `tc1 6030-7203 `tc4 For payments to hired equipment vendors used in the removal of snow and ice on state highways; provided, that no funds appropriated herein shall be expended for the compensation of state personnel, or for the costs of sand, salt, or any other control chemicals or for any other costs which are not directly related to payment of hired equipment vendors; provided further, that the department of highways shall make all payments owed to hired equipment vendors within thirty days of the effective date of this act `tc6 $37,574,171 `tc5 Highway Fund 100.0% `tcol;end

SECTION 3. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, the funds appropriated in item 0611-5502 of section two A of this act shall be distributed according to the schedule listed below:

`tm;keep=no `tcol(*)=2,T;c1=10,20,tu;c2=60,15,tur `tch `tc1 `ts Municipality/Town*Distribution `t+1 `tch;end `tc1 Abington*$38,408 Acton*$30,561 Acushnet*$28,358 Adams*$33,734 Agawam*$72,598 Alford*$260 Amesbury*$35,743 Amherst*$161,688 Andover*$39,902 Arlington*$95,715 Ashburnham*$14,577 Ashby*$7,833 Ashfield*$3,479 Ashland*$23,331 Athol*$48,166 Attleboro*$107,523 Auburn*$33,661 Avon*$7,022 Ayer*$11,479 Barnstable*$46,294 Barre*$15,508 Becket*$1,303 Bedford*$16,783 Belchertown*$29,522 Bellingham*$34,628 Belmont*$37,135 Berkley*$10,300 Berlin*$4,665 Bernardston*$5,161 Beverly*$79,710 Billerica*$81,968 Blackstone*$25,722 Blandford*$2,384 Bolton*$4,325 Boston*$1,371,666 Bourne*$22,278 Boxborough*$4,702 Boxford*$8,186 Boylston*$6,430 Braintree*$58,172 Brewster*$8,936 Bridgewater*$63,653 Brimfield*$7,118 Brockton*$323,848 Brookfield*$10,462 Brookline*$87,918 Buckland*$5,540 Burlington*$36,409 Cambridge*$155,207 Canton*$28,020 Carlisle*$5,536 Carver*$33,600 Charlemont*$3,378 Charlton*$27,090 Chatham*$3,293 Chelmsford*$67,248 Chelsea*$106,502 Cheshire*$9,756 Chester*$3,421 Chesterfield*$2,463 Chicopee*$192,084 Chilmark*$85 Clarksburg*$7,190 Clinton*$41,976 Cohasset*$8,244 Colrain*$5,010 Concord*$21,471 Conway*$3,553 Cummington*$1,487 Dalton*$20,995 Danvers*$41,144 Dartmouth*$49,801 Dedham*$44,226 Deerfield*$10,127 Dennis*$10,752 Dighton*$13,261 Douglas*$14,387 Dover*$4,296 Dracut*$69,904 Dudley*$28,665 Dunstable*$3,906 Duxbury*$21,663 East Bridgewater*$27,783 East Brookfield*$5,437 East Longmeadow*$25,326 Eastham*$3,254 Easthampton*$52,626 Easton*$48,643 Edgartown*$1,079 Egremont*$1,279 Erving*$1,497 Essex*$4,706 Everett*$79,267 Fairhaven*$37,448 Fall River*$404,244 Falmouth*$27,025 Fitchburg*$157,903 Florida*$1,335 Foxborough*$30,412 Framingham*$146,925 Franklin*$48,157 Freetown*$20,187 Gardner*$72,120 Gay Head*$24 Georgetown*$14,586 Gill*$4,851 Gloucester*$47,856 Goshen*$1,435 Gosnold*$14 Grafton*$33,800 Granby*$15,739 Granville*$3,072 Great Barrington*$15,743 Greenfield*$55,151 Groton*$15,659 Groveland*$13,566 Hadley*$6,466 Halifax*$18,134 Hamilton*$12,473 Hampden*$10,470 Hancock*$707 Hanover*$20,568 Hanson*$22,594 Hardwick*$6,278 Harvard*$38,760 Harwich*$8,741 Hatfield*$6,778 Haverhill*$147,150 Hawley*$618 Heath*$1,372 Hingham*$27,655 Hinsdale*$4,695 Holbrook*$29,772 Holden*$35,657 Holland*$3,797 Holliston*$26,668 Holyoke*$166,084 Hopedale*$16,781 Hopkinton*$14,093 Hubbardston*$7,252 Hudson*$42,819 Hull*$23,787 Huntington*$6,215 Ipswich*$22,000 Kingston*$19,291 Lakeville*$13,627 Lancaster*$17,383 Lanesborough*$5,337 Lawrence*$313,607 Lee*$11,738 Leicester*$31,816 Lenox*$7,266 Leominster*$107,178 Leverett*$3,908 Lexington*$37,293 Leyden*$1,538 Lincoln*$10,487 Littleton*$11,562 Longmeadow*$26,491 Lowell*$376,763 Ludlow*$50,082 Lunenburg*$20,441 Lynn*$277,153 Lynnfield*$17,956 Malden*$172,912 Manchester*$5,183 Mansfield*$31,635 Marblehead*$28,629 Marion*$4,268 Marlborough*$59,187 Marshfield*$39,828 Mashpee*$6,189 Mattapoisett*$7,070 Maynard*$25,990 Medfield*$19,707 Medford*$147,666 Medway*$21,419 Melrose*$62,753 Mendon*$8,569 Merrimac*$16,485 Methuen*$101,728 Middleborough*$46,395 Middlefield*$730 Middleton*$6,971 Milford*$62,660 Millbury*$33,451 Millis*$17,102 Millville*$6,588 Milton*$48,688 Monroe*$153 Monson*$22,820 Montague*$22,721 Monterey*$505 Montgomery*$1,742 Mount Washington*$83 Nahant*$5,926 Nantucket*$1,566 Natick*$53,676 Needham*$34,107 New Ashford*$238 New Bedford*$434,467 New Braintree*$2,259 New Marlborough*$1,023 New Salem*$1,385 Newbury*$10,517 Newburyport*$30,475 Newton*$107,203 Norfolk*$23,319 North Adams*$84,930 North Andover*$43,312 North Attleborough*$58,712 North Brookfield*$16,643 North Reading*$21,374 Northampton*$75,285 Northborough*$23,334 Northbridge*$47,653 Northfield*$7,007 Norton*$40,312 Norwell*$13,560 Norwood*$49,810 Oak Bluffs*$1,608 Oakham*$3,823 Orange*$27,397 Orleans*$3,539 Otis*$616 Oxford*$36,868 Palmer*$35,531 Paxton*$9,571 Peabody*$108,477 Pelham*$2,925 Pembroke*$31,950 Pepperell*$26,181 Peru*$2,101 Petersham*$2,190 Phillipston*$3,360 Pittsfield*$134,584 Plainfield*$842 Plainville*$13,968 Plymouth*$84,167 Plympton*$4,072 Princeton*$5,646 Provincetown*$3,069 Quincy*$204,017 Randolph*$77,143 Raynham*$19,552 Reading*$49,225 Rehoboth*$18,695 Revere*$115,458 Richmond*$2,573 Rochester*$7,158 Rockland*$41,821 Rockport*$10,764 Rowe*$118 Rowley*$8,835 Royalston*$2,488 Russell*$5,233 Rutland*$14,028 Salem*$85,836 Salisbury*$11,217 Sandisfield*$527 Sandwich*$22,046 Saugus*$49,859 Savoy*$1,730 Scituate*$26,217 Seekonk*$22,845 Sharon*$30,676 Sheffield*$4,293 Shelburne*$4,953 Sherborn*$4,146 Shirley*$21,105 Shrewsbury*$51,292 Shutesbury*$3,396 Somerset*$30,314 Somerville*$255,090 South Hadley*$51,201 Southampton*$10,425 Southborough*$9,000 Southbridge*$65,384 Southwick*$21,341 Spencer*$40,884 Springfield*$630,911 Sterling*$14,547 Stockbridge*$2,188 Stoneham*$48,213 Stoughton*$63,321 Stow*$9,594 Sturbridge*$16,154 Sudbury*$19,867 Sunderland*$8,801 Sutton*$13,074 Swampscott*$21,540 Swansea*$34,191 Taunton*$164,627 Templeton*$22,774 Tewksbury*$61,371 Tisbury*$1,967 Tolland*$117 Topsfield*$9,768 Townsend*$23,095 Truro*$511 Tyngsborough*$20,071 Tyringham*$231 Upton*$9,434 Uxbridge*$31,025 Wakefield*$49,208 Wales*$4,242 Walpole*$36,462 Waltham*$108,038 Ware*$31,155 Wareham*$35,013 Warren*$14,458 Warwick*$1,688 Washington*$1,347 Watertown*$68,218 Wayland*$15,116 Webster*$47,071 Wellesley*$29,195 Wellfleet*$1,269 Wendell*$2,580 Wenham*$8,214 West Boylston*$10,383 West Bridgewater*$9,706 West Brookfield*$9,134 West Newbury*$6,622 West Springfield*$58,901 West Stockbridge*$1,931 West Tisbury*$744 Westborough*$18,776 Westfield*$122,879 Westford*$28,920 Westhampton*$2,709 Westminster*$12,746 Weston*$7,766 Westport*$21,821 Westwood*$15,726 Weymouth*$150,340 Whately*$2,293 Whitman*$38,693 Wilbraham*$25,957 Williamsburg*$6,477 Williamstown*$17,803 Wilmington*$28,730 Winchendon*$30,362 Winchester*$27,160 Windsor*$1,365 Winthrop*$50,139 Woburn*$62,740 Worcester*$564,977 Worthington*$2,110 Wrentham*$22,196 Yarmouth*$25,983 `tcol;end

SECTION 4. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, the highway department is hereby authorized and directed to conduct a cost benefit analysis comparison of snow and ice removal in other states, including, but not limited to, Connecticut, Maine, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, New York, and Vermont. Said analysis shall include, but not be limited to, a comparison of the total costs of snow and ice removal per lane mile in each said state, and a comparison of the direct and indirect cost of said states' use of state employees versus hired equipment vendors, so-called, for snow and ice removal per lane mile, including the cost effectiveness of said states' worker deployment plans and capital expenditures associated with equipment. Said department shall consider and review other snow and ice removal services in the commonwealth, including, but not limited to, the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority and the metropolitan district commission. Said analysis, including any findings and recommendations shall be submitted to the house and senate committees on ways and means not later than June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ninety-four.

SECTION 5. This act shall take effect upon its passage.