Session Laws

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

Chapter 211 of the General Laws is hereby amended by striking out section 4, as most recently amended by section 45 of chapter 1114 of the acts of 1973, and inserting in place thereof the following section:-

Section 4. A majority of the justices may, if in their judgment the public good so requires, remove from office a clerk of the courts or of their own court; and if sufficient cause is shown therefor and it appears that the public good so requires, may, upon a complaint, upon a summary hearing or otherwise, remove a clerk of the superior court in Suffolk county, or of a district court, a county commissioner, a county treasurer, sheriff, register of probate and insolvency or district attorney, or the recorder of the land court.