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. Chapter 448 of the acts of 1909 is hereby amended by striking out section 1, as amended by section 1 of chapter 55 of the acts of 1948, and inserting in place thereof the following section:-

Section 1. Beginning with the year nineteen hundred and ninety-five, biennial municipal elections in the city of Taunton for the election of mayor, members of the municipal council, members of the school committee, members of the planning board, members of the zoning board of appeals and members of the Taunton municipal lighting plant commission shall be held biennially on the Tuesday next following the first Monday of November in each odd-numbered year.

SECTION 2. Said chapter 448 is hereby further amended by striking out section 3, as amended by section 1 of chapter 407 of the acts of 1941, and inserting in place thereof the following section:-

Section 3. The municipal officers to be elected at city elections shall be the mayor; members of a single council, to consist of nine members, to be called the municipal council; members of the school committee; members of the planning board; members of the zoning board of appeals, to consist of seven members, two of whom shall be alternate members; and members of the Taunton municipal lighting plant commission.

SECTION 3. Said chapter 448 is hereby further amended by striking out section 4, as most recently amended by section 2 of chapter 407 of the acts of 1941, and inserting in place thereof the following section:-

Section 4. At the biennial city election in the year nineteen hundred and ninety-five, and every second year thereafter, there shall be elected, by and from the qualified voters of the city, a mayor, nine municipal council members, eight school committee members, three Taunton municipal lighting plant commissioners, seven planning board members, and seven zoning board of appeals members.

SECTION 4. Section 6 of said chapter 448, as amended by section 1 of chapter 187 of the acts of 1930, is hereby further amended by striking out, in lines 2 and 3, the words "or member of the school committee," and inserting in place thereof the following words:- , member of the school committee, member of the Taunton municipal lighting plant commission, member of the planning board or member of the zoning board of appeals.

SECTION 5. This act shall take effect upon its passage.