Session Laws

Whereas, The deferred operation of this act would tend to defeat its purpose, which is to immediately make certain changes in the executive councillor districts, 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. Section 2 of chapter 57 of the General Laws, as amended by section 2 of chapter 274 of the acts of 1993, is hereby further amended by striking out clause Second and inserting in place thereof the following clause:-

Second.- Consisting of the Middlesex, Norfolk and Worcester, the Norfolk, Bristol and Middlesex, the Norfolk, Bristol and Plymouth, the Second Plymouth and Bristol, and the Norfolk and Suffolk senatorial districts.

SECTION 2. Said section 2 of said chapter 57, as amended by said section 2 of said chapter 274, is hereby further amended by striking out clause Fourth and inserting in place thereof the following clause:-

Fourth.- Consisting of the Norfolk and Plymouth, the Plymouth and Norfolk, the First Suffolk, the Second Suffolk, and the Suffolk and Norfolk senatorial districts.

SECTION 3. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, local registrars of voters shall not refuse to certify resident signatures or nomination papers of candidates for the Second executive councillor district in the nineteen hundred and ninety-four primary or general election solely on the basis that the district designation on said nomination papers is the Fourth executive councillor district nor shall said local registrars of voters refuse to certify resident signatures on nomination papers of candidates for the Fourth executive councillor district in the nineteen hundred and ninety-four primary or general election solely on the basis that the district designation on said nomination papers is the Second executive councillor district.

SECTION 4. This act shall take effect as of December third, nineteen hundred and ninety-three.