HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 1421        FILED ON: 1/13/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 1271

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act authorizing the department of highways to acquire land in the city of Quincy and the town of Milton for the purpose of flood control and prevention..

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 any general or special law to the contrary, the department of highway may take by eminent domain on behalf of the commonwealth, under chapter 79 of the General Laws, certain land located in the city of Quincy and town of Milton for the purpose of alleviating and preventing flooding associated with any constructed state highway.