HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 324        FILED ON: 1/9/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 3250

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act relative to the regulation of excessive noise from a Sound Amplification System while operating a Motor Vehicle..

 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

 it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows

 Chapter 90 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2002 Official

 Edition, is hereby amended by inserting, after Section 17B, the

 following new section:—-

 17C. No driver of any motor vehicle shall operate or permit operation

 of any sound amplification system which can be heard outside

 the vehicle from 50 feet or more when the vehicle is being operated

 upon any way or in any place to which the public has a right of

 access, or upon any way or in any place to which members of the

 public have access as invitees or licensees, unless such system is

 being operated to request assistance or warn of a hazardous situation.

 This section does not apply to authorized emergency vehicles.

 An operator of a motor vehicle who violates the provisions of this

 section shall be punished by a fine of not less than $100.