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 any general or special law to the contrary, no person employed by the town of Mendon, the Mendon-Upton Regional School District or the Blackstone Valley Vocational Regional School District shall be eligible to hold the office of selectman in the town of Mendon while so employed. Any person so employed and holding the office of selectman in the town of Mendon on the effective date of this act shall be permitted to serve the remainder of his term but shall be ineligible for re-election while so employed.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.