HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 3082        FILED ON: 1/14/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 1609

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act to clarify the venue of prosecutions for larceny by check..

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.  Chapter 277 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2006 Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting after section 62B the following section:-

Section 62C.  The crime set forth in section 37 of chapter 266 may be prosecuted and punished in any judicial district where the check, draft or order for the payment of money was executed or delivered, or where the money or property or services obtained thereby were delivered.