HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 1031        FILED ON: 1/13/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 1762

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act relative to increasing the amount of damages in small claims court..

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 21 of chapter 218 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2006 Official Edition, is hereby amended in line 6 by striking the words “two thousand dollars” and inserting in place thereof:— $5,000.