HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 3529        FILED ON: 1/14/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 1361

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act relative to the jurisdictional amount allowable in small claims cases..

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.  Said Section 21 of said Chapter 218, as so appearing in the 2006 Official Edition of the General Laws, is hereby amended by striking out, in line 4, the words “two thousand dollars” and inserting in place thereof the following figure:— $5000.00.