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:

Notwithstanding the provision of section four of chapter forty of the General Laws or any other general or special law to the contrary, the town of Dartmouth, acting by and through its department of public works, the city of New Bedford acting by and through its water board, and the Greater New Bedford Regional Refuse Management District, acting by and through its district committee, may enter into a contract for a term in excess of twenty years requiring said city of New Bedford to supply water to the town of Dartmouth in the event of contamination of said town's water supplies by landfill activities of said district, and may provide for payment by said district of a portion of the charges for such water.