Chapter 573. An Act prohibiting dog officers in cities and towns 

 from being licensed animal dealers. (Approved August 22, 1978) 



No dog officer shall be a licensed animal dealer registered 

 with the United States Department of Agriculture and no dog officer 

 shall sell any animal to any licensed animal dealer registered with 

 the United States Department of Agriculture. 



Chapter 22A. An Act further regulating the law relative to nuisances 

 on agricultural and horticultural lands. (Approved May 31 t 1979) 



This legislation provides that the odor from the normal 

 maintenance of livestock or the spreading of manure upon agricultural 

 and horticultural lands shall not be determined to constitute a 

 nuisance. 



Chapter 315. An Act further clarifying the appeal procedures in 

 the Coastal and Inland Wetlands Act. (June 22, 1979, approved) 



This legislation provides that any person having an ownership 

 interest, and leasee who holds a lease of twenty-five years or 

 more and any mortgagor having an interest in land affected by 

 a wetlands order, may, within ninety days after receiving notice 

 thereof, petition the superior court to determine whether such order 

 so restricts the use of his property as to deprive him of the 

 practical uses, thereof, and is therefore an unreasonable exercise 

 of the police power because the order constitutes the equivalent 

 of the taking without compensation. 



Chapter 338. An Act further regulating the awarding of racing 

 days. (Approved, with emergency preamble June 28, 1979) 



This legislation affected the Topsfield Fair. No licenses 

 shall be issued for more than an aggregate of eight hundred and 

 eighty racing days in one year at all dog racing meetings, 

 excluding dog racing meetings conducted at a race track owned and 

 operated by a state or county fair in Essex County. 



- 4 - 



