Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (b) of section 27 of chapter 184 of the General Laws concerning the time of filing extensions of restrictions, the register of deeds for Hampshire county shall record the extension of the declaration of covenants and restrictions of Echo Hill in the town of Amherst, originally recorded in Book 1499, Page 491 in 1966 as voted at a meeting of the Echo Hill Association, Inc. at an annual meeting held on March 11, 1996. Upon such recording the extension shall be in full force and effect as if it were timely filed.