Chap. 0378 An Act authorizing the continued operation of motor vehicles for the carriage of passengers for hire by carriers holding certain war emergency certificates, and providing for the continued certification of such carriers.

Whereas, The deferred operation of this act would tend to defeat its purpose, which is to make continuously available the existing carriage of passengers for hire by motor vehicle under certain war emergency certificates, in the event of the repeal, revocation and annulment of certain executive orders, therefore it is hereby declared to be an emergency law, necessary for the immediate preservation of the public convenience.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Any common carrier who, at the time of the repeal, revocation and annulment of executive orders numbered eleven and seventy-six issued by the governor under chapter thirteen of the acts of nineteen hundred and forty-two or other authority vested in him, is operating motor vehicles for the

carriage of passengers for hire under the authority of a war emergency certificate issued by the department of public utilities under authority of said orders, is hereby authorized to continue such operation for a period of six months thereafter, but shall be subject to such provisions of chapter one hundred and fifty-nine A of the General Laws as are not inconsistent herewith and to the conditions and restrictions applicable to such war emergency certificate. Any such carrier, within three months from the time of such repeal, revocation and annulment and without complying with the requirements of section one of said chapter one hundred and fifty-nine A but otherwise conforming to such provisions of said chapter as are not inconsistent herewith, may apply to said department for a certificate that public convenience and necessity require the operation of motor vehicles for the carriage of passengers for hire over the route covered by such war emergency certificate.     Approved May 9, 1947.