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 31 of the charter of the city of Lowell is hereby amended by adding the following paragraph:-

No person shall serve as a member of the school committee of the city of Lowell for more than a total of four consecutive or non-consecutive two year terms.

SECTION 2. Section 96 of said charter is hereby amended by adding the following paragraph:-

No person shall serve as a member of the city council of the city of Lowell for more than a total of four consecutive or non-consecutive two year terms.

SECTION 3. Section 103 of said charter is hereby amended by adding the following paragraph:-

No individual elected to the office of mayor by the voters of the city of Lowell shall serve as mayor of said city for more than a total of four consecutive or non-consecutive two year terms.

SECTION 4. This act shall be submitted to the qualified voters of the city of Lowell at the next state election to be held in November, nineteen hundred and ninety-four in the form of the following question, which shall be placed upon the official ballot:

"Shall an act passed by the General Court in the year nineteen hundred and ninety-four entitled 'An Act amending the charter of the city of Lowell to impose limitations on the terms of office of all city of Lowell elected public officials' be accepted "

If a majority of the votes cast in answer to said question is in the affirmative then the provisions of this act shall take effect at ten o'clock in the forenoon of the first Monday of January, nineteen hundred and ninety-six; provided, however, that section three shall not so take effect unless the act entitled "An Act amending the charter of the city of Lowell" has been accepted by the voters.

SECTION 5. Section four shall take effect upon its passage. The remainder of this act shall take effect upon its acceptance by the voters of the city of Lowell in accordance with the terms and conditions set forth in section four.