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CHAPTER 99 AN ACT DESIGNATING THE THIRD FRIDAY IN SEPTEMBER AS POW/MIA DAY AND DIRECTING THE SUPERINTENDENT OF STATE OFFICE BUILDINGS TO FLY THE PRISONERS OF WAR AND MISSING IN ACTION FLAG ON THE GROUNDS OF CERTAIN STATE BUILDINGS.

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. Chapter 6 of the General Laws is hereby amended by inserting after section 15AAA, inserted by chapter 53 of the acts of 1986, the following section:-

Section 15BBB. The governor shall annually issue a proclamation setting apart the third Friday in September as POW/MIA Day in remembrance of the courage and plight of American POW's, and recommending that said day be observed in an appropriate manner by the people.

SECTION 2. Chapter 28 of the acts of 1985 is hereby amended by striking out section 3 and inserting in place thereof the following section:-

Section 3. The provisions of section two shall become inoperative on August first, nineteen hundred and eighty-seven.

Approved June 16, 1986.