HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 1529        FILED ON: 1/13/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 1308

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act relative to certain arrests for misdemeanors..

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

Section 38 of chapter 276 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2004 Official Edition is hereby amended by adding the following paragraph:-

A person arrested for violating a temporary or permanent vacate, restraining, suspension and surrender or no contact order or judgment under this section in a city or town outside the jurisdiction where such order or judgment was issued shall be brought before the district court division having jurisdiction of the city or town where the arrest was made.