Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives
in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same,
as follows:
SECTION 1. The city of Springfield, acting by and through its board of water commissioners, is hereby authorized to include in any lease of the Cobble Mountain hydroelectric facility executed under the provisions of chapter two hundred and sixty-seven of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-eight terms requiring the lessee to obtain design services, construct, reconstruct, install, operate, maintain, repair or demolish improvements on or associated with the land so leased; provided, however, that no work undertaken pursuant to said lease shall be subject to any general or special law, rule, regulation, or ordinance requiring competitive bidding.
SECTION 2. The provisions of this act shall apply to any and all leases entered into on or after June first, nineteen hundred and twenty-eight.
SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage.