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. Section 7 of chapter 339 of the acts of 1925 is hereby amended by striking out the second paragraph, added by chapter 493 of the acts of 1978, and inserting in place thereof the following paragraph:-

Said district shall pay to the city of Salem an annual payment in lieu of taxes for all lands, facilities and other property of said district within said city, including, without limitation, all lands and buildings to be acquired and facilities to be constructed in connection with the provision of so-called secondary treatment, in accordance with the following schedule: on July first, nineteen hundred and ninety-three the sum of ninety-six thousand three hundred dollars; on July first, nineteen hundred and ninety-four the sum of one hundred forty-five thousand eight hundred dollars; on July first, nineteen hundred and ninety-five the sum of two hundred eighty-four thousand two hundred fifty dollars; on July first, nineteen hundred and ninety-six the sum of four hundred thirty-six thousand three hundred fifty dollars; on July first, nineteen hundred and ninety-seven and on July first of each year thereafter, the sum of five hundred thousand dollars. Such annual payments shall be assessed by the district against, and such assessments shall be paid by, all members of the district with the exception of the city of Salem, such payments to be apportioned among such members in the same ratio as the yearly flow of sewage of each such member bears to the yearly combined flow of sewage of the district. In the year two thousand said board shall review the amount of the annual payment in lieu of taxes for the appropriateness of an increase in such payment and if it finds an increase to be warranted, shall petition the general court for an amendment hereto.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect as of the first day of July, nineteen hundred and ninety-three.