Session Laws

Whereas, The deferred operation of this act would tend to defeat its purpose, which is to immediately further regulate the conduct of dog racing therefore, it is hereby declared to be an emergency law, necessary for the immediate preservation of the public convenience.

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. The first paragraph of section 12A of chapter 494 of the acts of 1978, as appearing in section 4 of chapter 277 of the acts of 1986, is hereby amended by striking out in line 2, the words:- "eighty-six through nineteen hundred and ninety" and inserting in place thereof the following words:- "ninety-one through nineteen hundred and ninety-five".

SECTION 2. Said section 12A of said chapter 494, as so appearing in section 4 of said chapter 277 is hereby further amended by striking out the last paragraph and inserting in place thereof the following paragraph:-

Funds paid by licensees and deposited by the commission in the Greyhound Capital Improvements Trust Fund and in the Greyhound Promotional Trust Fund shall remain in said funds until expended under this section; provided however, that any amount in said accounts as of December thirty-first nineteen hundred and ninety-five which has not been so expended or as to which no binding commitment has been made by said trustees shall thereupon be deposited in the General Fund.

SECTION 3. The introductory paragraph of section 13 of said chapter 494, as appearing in section 5 of said chapter 277 is hereby amended by striking out in lines 4 to 7, inclusive, the words "during the calendar years nineteen hundred and eighty-six through nineteen hundred and ninety, for clauses (c) and (f), and during the calendar years nineteen hundred and eighty-five through nineteen hundred and ninety," and inserting in place thereof:- during the calendar years nineteen hundred and ninety-one through nineteen hundred and ninety-five for clauses (c) and (f), and during the calendar years nineteen hundred and ninety-one through nineteen hundred and ninety-five,.

SECTION 4. Section 15 of said chapter 494, as appearing in section 8 of said chapter 277, is hereby amended by striking out the words "During calendar years nineteen hundred and eighty-seven through nineteen hundred and ninety," and inserting in place the words:- During the calendar years nineteen hundred and ninety-one through nineteen hundred and ninety-five,.

SECTION 5. The first sentence of the first paragraph of said section 9 of said chapter 277 is hereby amended by striking out, in lines 3 and 4, the words:- "during the calendar years nineteen hundred and eighty-six through nineteen hundred and ninety," and inserting in place thereof the following words:- , during the calendar years nineteen hundred and ninety-one through nineteen hundred and ninety-five,.