AN ACT AUTHORIZING CERTAIN STRUCTURES TO BE EXEMPT FROM CERTAIN HARBOR LINES IN THE SOUTH BOSTON SECTION OF THE CITY OF BOSTON.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 14 and 34 of chapter 91 of the General Laws or any other general or special law to the contrary, the department of environmental protection is hereby authorized to grant a license to the Peninsula Yacht Club in the South Boston section of the city of Boston to construct, maintain and repair a floating barge secured by piles, together with walkways and a docking facility to be located in whole or in part beyond the harbor line in the Reserve Channel between the westerly side of said Reserve Channel between the westerly side of the Summer Street Bridge and attached to said bridge or with similar existing walkway access and attachment to any replacement bridge, in said city of Boston, such harbor line having been established by certain laws including, but not limited to, chapter 170 of the acts of 1880; provided, however, that nothing in this section shall be construed to exempt said Peninsula Yacht Club from the substantive and procedural requirements of said chapter 91 and its regulations, other than the exemption authorized herein from the harbor line requirements of said sections 14 and 34 of said chapter 91.