HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 3560        FILED ON: 1/14/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 1364

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act relative to additional responsibilities for clerk magistrates..

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.  Section 62C of Chapter 221 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2006 Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting in subsection (h), after “day” the following:-

“, conduct arraignments, appoint counsel, when a justice is unavailable.”