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HOLBROOK: (64%) Acting "Chief Marble would like Holbrook to adopt a bylaw prohibiting the public use of pot and has been researching ways that surrounding towns have gone about doing the same thing."  HOLBROOK is a luddite community without website we'll be providing contact information of selectmen and town meeting members in the near future!

SAUGUS: (60%) (Representative) ATM

Article 25.

To see if the Town will vote to amend the Town By-laws by inserting the following new section under Police Regulations.

Prohibiting the Consumption or use of Marijuana in Public Places.
No Person shall smoke, ingest or otherwise use or consume marijuana, or tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). (As defined in GL Chapter 94c Section 1., as amended.). 

This regulation shall apply to persons while on, in or upon any public way, upon any way in which the public has a right of access, in any place to which members of the public have access as invitees or licensees, in any park or playground, conservation area or recreation area, cemetery, parking lot, or any area owned or under the control of the Town of Saugus; or in or upon any bus or other passenger conveyance operated by a common carrier or on private land or place without consent of the owner of person in control thereof. 

Any person found in violation of this section may be arrested without a warrant by any officer authorized to serve criminal process, additionally any evidence seized at the time of the violation shall not need testing or certification. As with all civil infractions, in any hearing before a Magistrate, the standard of proof is the preponderance of the evidence and strict rules of evidence need not be applied.

Any vehicle used, or under the control of any person found to be in violation of this section may be towed at the expense of the owner and under the direction of the Police Department.

Those persons found in violation of this bylaw shall forfeit and pay for each offense a fine of Three Hundred ($300.00) dollars.
(Stephen Sweezey)