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 9 of chapter 40 of the General Laws is hereby amended by striking out the first sentence, as most recently amended by chapter 40 of the acts of 1985, and inserting in place thereof the following sentence:- A city or town may, for the purpose of providing suitable headquarters for such post or posts of any veterans' organization incorporated or chartered by the congress of the United States, as have been in operation for at least three years, or for the purpose of providing suitable headquarters for a camp of the United Spanish War Veterans, or for a post of the Polish-American Veterans, Inc., of the Lithuanian War Veterans Organization, Inc., of the Unity War Veterans Association, Inc., Post No. 1, of the 3.54 American Veterans of World War II, AMVETS, of the Italian American War Veterans of the United States, Incorporated, of the Armenian American Veterans Association, Inc., of the War Veterans Civic Association of Massachusetts, Inc., for the Yankee Division Veterans Association or any chapter thereof, for a barracks of the Veterans of World War I of the U.S.A., for the United American Veterans of the U.S.A., Inc. or any chapter thereof, for the Massachusetts Vietnam-ERA Veterans Association, Inc. or any chapter thereof, or for the Vietnam Combat Veterans Combined Armed Forces or any chapter thereof lease for a period not exceeding five years building or parts of buildings which shall be under the direction and control of such post, camp or barracks subject to regulations made in cities by the mayor with the approval of the council and in towns by vote of the town, and for said purposes a town with a valuation of less than five million dollars may annually appropriate not more than two thousand dollars; a town with a valuation of five million dollars but not more than twenty-five million dollars may annually appropriate not more than three thousand dollars; a town with a valuation of more than twenty-five million dollars but not more than fifty million dollars may annually appropriate not more than four thousand dollars; a town with a valuation of more than fifty million dollars but not more than seventy-five million dollars may annually appropriate not more than five thousand dollars; a town with a valuation of more than seventy-five million dollars but not more than one hundred million dollars may annually appropriate not more than six thousand dollars; a town with a valuation of more than one hundred million dollars but not more than one hundred and twenty-five million dollars may annually appropriate not more than seven thousand dollars; a town with a valuation of more than one hundred and twenty-five million dollars but not more than one hundred and fifty million dollars may annually appropriate not more than ten thousand dollars; and a town with a valuation of more than one hundred and fifty million dollars may annually appropriate ten thousand dollars, and in addition three thousand dollars for each additional one hundred and fifty million dollars of valuation, or major fraction thereof.