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 or by-law to the contrary, all acts and proceedings of the town of Braintree at its special town meeting held on May fifth, nineteen hundred and eighty-six, and at a special town meeting held on May fourth, nineteen hundred and eighty-seven, and all actions taken pursuant thereto, are hereby ratified, validated and confirmed to the same extent as if the warrant for such meeting had been published in a newspaper of general circulation within the town of Braintree, as required by the by-laws of the town of Braintree.

SECTION 2. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law or by-law to the contrary, all actions taken by the town of Braintree under the warrant for the annual town election held on March second, nineteen hundred and eighty-seven, and all actions taken pursuant thereto, are hereby ratified, validated and confirmed to the same extent as if the warrant for such election had been published as required by law in a newspaper of general circulation within the town of Braintree.

SECTION 3. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law or by-law to the contrary, awards of contracts made by the town of Braintree during the period January first, nineteen hundred and eighty-six through May thirty-first, nineteen hundred and eighty-seven, and all actions taken pursuant thereto, are hereby ratified, validated and confirmed to the same extent as if the invitations to bid upon which said contracts are based were published in a newspaper of general circulation within the town of Braintree pursuant to the General Laws and the by-laws of the town of Braintree; and the actions of the town of Braintree in appropriating the monies for said contracts and, after such appropriations, the actions of the treasurer of the town in paying the contract sums are hereby ratified, validated and confirmed as if such contracts had been awarded pursuant to the publication requirements of the General Laws and the by-laws of the town of Braintree.

SECTION 4. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law or by-law to the contrary, all acts and proceedings of the board of selectmen of the town of Braintree during the period January first, nineteen hundred and eighty-six through May thirty-first, nineteen hundred and eighty-seven, which were taken after hearings relating to alcoholic beverage license transfers and changes in licensed premises pursuant to chapter one hundred and thirty-eight of the General Laws are hereby ratified, validated and confirmed to the same extent as if the hearings on such matters had been published as required by section fifteen A of said chapter one hundred and thirty-eight in a newspaper of general circulation within the town of Braintree.

SECTION 5. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law or by-law to the contrary, all actions and proceedings of the town of Braintree's board of appeal under the zoning by-law with respect to appeals and variances heard by said board under the town's zoning by-law during the period January first, nineteen hundred and eighty-six through May thirty-first, nineteen hundred and eighty-seven, and all actions taken pursuant thereto, are hereby ratified, validated and confirmed to the same extent as if notice of hearings on said appeals and variances had been published as required by law in a newspaper of general circulation within the town of Braintree.

SECTION 6. This act shall take effect upon its passage.