HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 5080        FILED ON: 6/10/2010

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 4805

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Ten

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An Act Authorizing the Town of Arlington to Establish Senior Citizen Safety Zones..

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 section 2 of chapter 85 of the General Laws or any other general or special law or regulation to the contrary, the Town of Arlington may establish by order or regulation, on pubic ways under the care and custody of the Town, senior citizen safety zones in areas adjacent to publicly or privately owned facilities used as senior citizen housing, nursing homes, assisted living facilities, community centers at which activities are conducted for senior citizens on a regular basis, or congregate elderly facilities within the Town of Arlington.

Section 2. In a senior citizen safety zone, the Town of Arlington may, by order or regulation under the direction of the Board of Selectmen, take necessary action to reduce vehicular speed by reducing speed limits to not less than 20 miles per hour, by installing signals or appropriate signs, and/or by re-striping roadways. The Board of Selectmen may adopt and amend rules and regulations to carry out this act.

Section 3. The Town of Arlington shall notify the state traffic engineer upon the establishment of a senior citizen safety zone. The Town shall notify the state traffic engineer of any reduction of speed on a functionally classified local roadway.

Section 4. This act shall not apply to any state highway, numbered route, or functionally classified arterial road.

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