HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 2056        FILED ON: 1/14/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 1999

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act relative to wind energy..

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 40A of the General Laws is hereby amended by inserting after section 9C the following section:-

Section 9D.  Zoning ordinance or by-laws regulating the installation and operation of wind turbines shall not unreasonably limit such installation or unreasonably hinder the performance of such installations.