HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 3753        FILED ON: 1/15/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 3208

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act relative to the operation of motor vehicles..

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 2006 Official Edition, is hereby amended by  adding at the end thereof:-

The Executive Office of Transportation shall promulgate rule through the Registry of Motor Vehicles regulations stating that any driver operating a motor vehicle on a public way in the Commonwealth shall illuminate the headlights of said vehicle when windshield wipers are in operation.