HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 952        FILED ON: 1/13/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 1367

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act relative to security in all court buildings and facilities..

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

Chapter 220 of the General Laws is hereby amended by inserting after section 14A the following section:-

Section 14B.Police officers, as defined in section l of chapter 90C, shall not be prohibited from carrying or possessing on their person a firearm or other protective equipment in any court facility. building, courtroom or other room of any description within the control, possession or use of the trial court, the appeals court or the supreme judicial court except that firearms shall be prohibited from the prisoner lockup and when said officer is a personal party to pending litigation or other legal matter before the court.