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1985

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CHAPTER 651 AN ACT AUTHORIZING A CITY OR TOWN TO PROHIBIT THE DISTRIBUTION OF CERTAIN OBSCENE MATERIAL ON CABLE TELEVISION.

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. Section 16 of chapter 166A of the General Laws is hereby amended by adding the following paragraph:-

Except as set forth in section three, nothing in this chapter shall prohibit a city or town from prohibiting the distribution on basic service of material, which is obscene as defined in section thirty-one of chapter two hundred and seventy-two, by the licensee to subscribers of said city or town.

SECTION 2. The provisions of this act shall apply only to licensing agreements entered into or renewed on or after March thirty-first, nineteen hundred and eighty-six.

Approved December 23, 1985.