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 any provision of law to the contrary in the event that the annual regional school district budget for the Frontier Regional School District and the Dudley Charlton Regional School District has not been approved under section sixteen B of chapter seventy-one of the General Laws before July first, nineteen hundred and eighty-nine by the member municipalities, the treasurer of each municipality shall pay to the treasurer of the Frontier Regional School District and the Dudley Charlton Regional School District, on or before July fifteenth, nineteen hundred and eighty-nine and on or before the fifteenth of each succeeding month until said budget has been approved, but in no case beyond October fifteenth, nineteen hundred and eighty-nine, a sum equal to one-twelfth of the total amount appropriated and certified to such municipality for the preceding fiscal year. The treasurer of said Frontier Regional School District and the Dudley Charlton 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 Frontier Regional School District and the Dudley Charlton Regional School District, at a level no higher than the annual budget for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighty-nine.

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

SECTION 1A. For the purposes of this chapter, approval of the Dudley Charlton Regional School District budget by a district wide meeting pursuant to section 16B of chapter 71 of the General Laws shall be considered approval by the member communities.

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