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. The office of treasurer-collector of the town of East Bridgewater is hereby established. Said treasurer-collector shall be appointed by the board of selectmen, the chairman of the finance committee and the moderator of said town for a term of three years and shall perform all the duties hereinbefore performed by the treasurer and collector of said town and shall have such other powers and duties as may from time to time be established. Any vacancy in said office shall be filled in a like manner for the unexpired portion of the term.

SECTION 2. In the event a vacancy in the office of treasurer or collector of taxes in the town of East Bridgewater prior to the appointment of a treasurer-collector under the provision of section one, the board of selectmen shall fill the vacancy for the remainder of the term.

SECTION 3. The position of treasurer in the town of East Bridgewater shall be abolished as of the date of the annual town election in the year nineteen hundred and eighty-eight, and for the period between the annual town election in said year and the appointment of a treasurer-collector the position of treasurer is deemed vacant for the purposes of section two of this act. The position of collector in the town of East Bridgewater shall be abolished as of the date of the annual town election in the year nineteen hundred and eighty-nine.

SECTION 4. Section one shall take effect as of the date of the annual town election in the year nineteen hundred and eighty-nine.