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 section 20A of chapter 44 of the General Laws or any other general or special law to the contrary, all expenditures made from revenue funds by the town of Oak Bluffs in connection with the development of a sanitary sewer system, which expenditures were previously authorized by votes of the town, duly adopted, are hereby ratified, validated and confirmed, and all such expenditures may be reimbursed from the proceeds of any bonds or notes previously authorized to be issued by the town to finance the project, notwithstanding the failure of the town to reimburse itself for these expenditures in accordance with said section 20A of said chapter 44. The issuance by the town of any bonds or notes authorized before the passage of this act to finance the project, in order to reimburse the town for these expenditures, is hereby expressly ratified, approved, validated and confirmed.

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