HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 3926        FILED ON: 1/16/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 3841

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act to promote pedestrian safety. ..

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

Section 17 of Chapter 84 of the General Laws is hereby amended by adding a second paragraph as follows:

“A person shall not be liable for an injury or damage sustained upon a public way by reason of snow or ice thereon, if the person removed snow or ice from the public way in accordance with municipal ordinance or by-law.