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:

SECTION 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, the city of Lawrence is hereby authorized to issue a first half notice of the estimated tax in lieu of the actual assessment and issuance of the tax bill for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighty-six and require the payment of such estimated tax, which shall in no event exceed fifty per cent of the tax payable during the preceding fiscal year. Payment of the balance of the tax bill after the establishment of the tax rate for fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighty-six, after credit is given for the estimated tax payment previously made, shall represent the second payment upon such bill; such payment shall be payable without interest on or before May first, nineteen hundred and eighty-six or thirty days after the mailing of the actual tax bill, whichever is later, and any interest upon such payment shall be calculated from April first, nineteen hundred and eighty-six or the date of mailing of the bill, whichever is later.

All provisions of law regarding the procedures for issuing, mailing and collecting tax assessments upon real and personal property and betterment assessments shall be applicable to the notice of estimated tax provided hereunder, including the payments of interest under section fifty-seven of chapter fifty-nine of the General Laws. To the extent that any rights or remedies under law accrue from the date that the tax bill is issued, only the tax bill issued upon the establishment of the tax rate for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighty-six shall govern such rights or remedies. The provisions of section twenty-one C of said chapter fifty-nine shall apply to the tax rate for fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighty-six established by said city of Lawrence.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.