Budget Amendment ID: FY2022-S3-269

ENV 269

Parking Meter Local Approval

Messrs. Brownsberger, O'Connor and Keenan moved that the proposed new text be amended by adding after Section XX, the following new section:-

SECTION XX. Section 37 of chapter 92 of the General Laws is hereby amended by adding at the end of the first paragraph the following:- No such rule or regulation shall provide for the collection of any charge or fee for parking on any boulevard, roadway, parkway, way or any portion thereof, under the jurisdictional care, custody or control of the commissioner, between regularly established curb lines or that part, exclusive of shoulders, improved and intended to be open and used for vehicular traffic by the public on a public way unless the commissioner has received prior approval from the local appropriating authority, as defined in section 21C of chapter 59, of the municipality in whose boundaries such charge or fee is collected on or after January 1, 2021. Any municipal approval of any rule or regulation providing for the collection of such charge or fee for parking prior to January 1, 2021 shall be inoperative for the purposes of this section.