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 section thirty-two of chapter forty-four of the General Laws or any other general or special law to the contrary, within one hundred and sixty-four days after the annual organization of the city council of the city of Springfield in the year nineteen hundred and ninety, the mayor shall submit to the city council the annual budget which shall be a statement of the amounts recommended by said mayor for the proposed expenditures of said city for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ninety-one.

SECTION 2. If, upon the expiration of one hundred and sixty-four days after the annual organization of the city council of the city of Springfield in the year nineteen hundred and ninety, the mayor has failed to submit to the city council said annual budget for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ninety-one, said city council shall prepare said annual budget by June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ninety, and such preparation shall be subject to the same applicable requirements as the mayor's annual budget.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage.