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1968, and inserting in place thereof the following section: —
Section 53. Sections twenty-six to fifty-three, inclusive, shall be known and referred to as the Massachusetts Clean Waters Act and the officers of the division of law enforcement shall, upon request of the water resources commission or the division of water pollution control, investigate and prosecute violations of law, orders or rules and regulations relating to said act.
Approved May 3, 1974.
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Chap. 183. AN ACT FACILITATING THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE COMPREHENSIVE EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING ACT OF 1973 BY CERTAIN GOVERNMENTAL UNITS OF THE COMMONWEALTH.
Be it enacted, etc., as follows:
For the purpose of implementing the Federal Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1973 (Public Law 93-203), and amendments thereto any governmental unit, as defined in section four A of chapter forty of the General Laws, may enter into an agreement with one or more other governmental units, as so defined, to perform jointly or for such other unit or units, any service, activity or undertaking, including any service, activity or undertaking authorized under section fifty-three A of chapter forty-four of the General Laws, which each contracting unit is authorized by law to perform, if such agreement is authorized by each party thereto, in a city having a plan D or plan E charter by its city manager and in any other city by its mayor, in a town by the selectmen and in a district by the prudential committee, if any,' and otherwise by the commissioners. Any such agreement may be terminated by any party thereto at the end of any fiscal year if such termination is authorized by the terminating unit in the manner aforesaid; provided, that notice of such termination is given to each 'other party to the agreement at least sixty days prior to the date of termination.
Any such agreement shall be subject to the provisions of the second paragraph of said section four A of said chapter forty to the extent not inconsistent with this act.
The liability of any municipality for funds expended pursuant to an agreement authorized by this act shall be limited to the amount of funds actually disbursed by such municipality or disbursed for the benefit of its inhabitants.
Approved May 6, 1974.
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THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT
STATE HOUSE, BOSTON 02133
May 6, 1974
The Honorable John F. X. Davoren Secretary of the Commonwealth State House Boston, Massachusetts
Dear Mr. Secretary:
I, Francis W. Sargent, pursuant to the provisions of Article XLVIII of the Amendments to the Constitution, the Referendum II, Emergency Measures, hereby declare in my opinion the immediate preservation of the public convenience requires that the law being Chapter 183 of the Acts of 1974, entitled "AN ACT FACILITATING THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE COMPREHENSIVE EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING ACT OF 1973 BY CERTAIN GOVERNMENTAL UNITS OF THE COMMONWEALTH." and the enactment of which received my approval on May 6, 1974, should take effect forthwith.
I further declare that in my opinion said law is an emergency law and the facts constituting the emergency are as follows:
It is in the public interest that those governmental units prepared to enter into agreements under the provisions of this Act be permitted to do so forthwith.
Sincerely,
FRANCIS W. SARGENT
Governor of the Commonwealth
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY,              Boston,            May 6, 1974.
I, John F. X. Davoren, Secretary of the Commonwealth, hereby certify that the accompanying statement was filed in this office by His Excellency the Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts at four o'clock and forty-five minutes, P. M., on the above date, and in accordance with Article Forty-eight of the Amendments to the Constitution said chapter takes effect forthwith, being chapter one hundred and eighty-three of the acts of nineteen hundred and seventy-four.
JOHN F. X. DAVOREN, Secretary of the Commonwealth.