SENATE DOCKET, NO. 723        FILED ON: 1/13/2009

SENATE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 1774

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act permitting persons to bring car damage arising from a pothole against the public entity into small claims court..

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 3 of Chapter 258 of the General Laws, under the 2002 Official Edition, is hereby amended in line 6 after the word “county” by inserting the following words:-  “and except in the case where the damage to a claimant’s motor vehicle’s tire, rim or both is caused by a state, county or municipal roadway shall be brought under sections 21 to 25 of chapter 218 of the General Laws.”