HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 3631        FILED ON: 1/15/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 1702

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act Relative to the failure to submit to a police officer..

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 25 of Chapter 90 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2006 Official Edition, is hereby amended by striking in the last line the words “shall be punished by a fine of one hundred dollars” and inserting in place thereof the following:-

“shall be punished by imprisonment in jail for not more than one year or by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars.”