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, in the event that the annual regional school district budget for the Hampshire Regional School District has not been approved under the provisions of section sixteen B of chapter seventy-one of the General Laws before July first, nineteen hundred and eighty-six, by the member municipalities, the treasurer of each municipality shall pay to the treasurer of said Hampshire Regional School District, on or before July fifteenth, nineteen hundred and eighty-six and on or before the fifteenth of each succeeding month until said budget has been so approved, but in no case beyond October fifteenth, nineteen hundred and eighty-six, a sum equal to one-twelfth of the total amount apportioned and certified to such municipality for the preceding fiscal year. The treasurer of said Hampshire Regional School District is hereby authorized to expend all funds so paid by each member municipality and in addition thereto, all available funds, state receipts and any other funds ordinarily received for the operation of said Hampshire Regional School District, at a level no higher than the annual budget for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighty-six.

Upon approval of the annual regional school district budget for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighty-seven, by the member municipalities, the treasurer of the Hampshire Regional School District shall deduct from the amounts so certified or recertified to each member municipality, all amounts previously paid to said district on account of said fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighty-seven and the balance payable by each such municipality shall be paid to the Hampshire Regional School District in accordance with the terms of the agreement.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect as of July first, nineteen hundred and eighty-six.