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 the first sentence 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 seventy days after the annual organization of the city government in any city other than the city of Boston, the mayor shall submit to the city council the annual budget, which shall be a statement of the amounts recommended by him for the proposed expenditures of the city for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ninety-two.

SECTION 2. Notwithstanding the fourth paragraph of said section thirty-two of said chapter forty-four, if, upon the expiration of one hundred and seventy days after the annual organization of the city government in any city other than the city of Boston in the year nineteen hundred and ninety-one, the mayor shall not have submitted to the city council the annual budget for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ninety-two, the city council shall, upon its own initiative, prepare such annual budget by June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ninety-one, and such preparation shall be where applicable subject to the provisions governing the annual budget of the mayor.

SECTION 3. Notwithstanding the provision of section thirty-two of chapter forty-four of the General Laws or any other general or special law to the contrary, commencing July first, nineteen hundred and ninety-one and ending September first, nineteen hundred and ninety-one, the mayor may submit to the city council in any city other than the city of Boston, a continuing appropriation budget for said city on a month by month basis for a period not to exceed ninety days, if said city has not approved an operating budget for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ninety-two, because of circumstances beyond its control.