HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 3571        FILED ON: 1/15/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 1503

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act relative to the practice of law..

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

Chapter 221 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2002 Official Edition, is hereby amended by adding the following new section:—Section 46E. The provisions of section 46 shall not apply to a corporation, or its agents, which has been organized under the provisions of chapter 156 as a corporation, in the performance by such corporation, or its agents of drafting deeds, mortgages, leases and agreements in connection with sales or leases made or negotiated, in examining the title and removing exceptions to such title, in representing lenders as their closing agents and in issuing title certification or policy of title insurance premised on evaluation of title to real estate.