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CHAPTER 156 AN ACT DESIGNATING DONALD R. BARBER, ROSALIE A. BARBER AND BEVERLY JEAN PHILLIPS AS RESIDENTS OF THE TOWN OF CHESTER FOR A CERTAIN PERIOD OF TIME.

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, Donald R. Barber, Rosalie A. Barber, husband and wife and Beverly Jean Phillips, during their lifetime and for so long as any of them retains ownership and continues to reside on the parcel, hereinafter described, located in the towns of Chester and Blandford, shall for all purposes be residents of the town of Chester with all rights and privileges of domicile in the town of Chester attached thereto.

Said parcel is more particularly described by a deed to said Donald R. Barber and Rosalie A. Barber and recorded in the Hampden district registry of deeds, Book 6366, Page 359.

SECTION 2. Notwithstanding the provisions of section eleven of chapter fifty-nine of the General Laws or any other general or special law to the contrary, the assessor of the town of Chester only shall assess the parcel described in section one and the town of Chester only shall provide said parcel, and Donald R. Barber, Rosalie A. Barber and Beverly Jean Phillips all municipal services provided to other parcels and residents of the town of Chester. The assessor of the town of Blandford and the town of Blandford shall have no obligations to assess or provide services to said parcel or individuals as long as the terms of this act continue in effect.

SECTION 3. Nothing in this act shall be construed to affect, alter or change the boundary line of said towns as presently established or as may be hereafter established pursuant to provisions of law.

SECTION 4. The provisions of sections one and two of this act shall cease to be operative on the last day of the fiscal year in which Donald R. Barber, Rosalie A. Barber and Beverly Jean Phillips sell or transfer their entire ownership of said parcel or when none of them occupies said parcel as their domicile, or on the death of Donald R. Barber, Rosalie A. Barber and Beverly Jean Phillips.

SECTION 5. This act shall take effect as of June thirteenth, nineteen hundred and sixty-nine.

Approved June 19, 1989.