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 provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, any amounts received by a town from the civil defense program in connection with the costs incurred by the town as a result of the hurricane which struck the commonwealth on September twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and eighty-five, shall be deposited with the treasurer and held as a separate account and may be expended without further appropriation, subject however to the approval of the board of selectmen. Distribution to respective departments shall be in exact correlation to the bills approved by the town for work done by respective departments as a result of such hurricane.