HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 3242        FILED ON: 1/14/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 1614

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act relative to manslaughter..

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 13 of chapter 265 of the General Laws, as appearing in 2006 Official Edition, is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following:

“A corporation committing manslaughter shall be punished by a fine of not more than two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.”