HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 1662        FILED ON: 1/13/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 2212

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act relative to licensed residential properties..

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

Chapter 140 of the General Laws is hereby amended by inserting after section 12F the following section:-

Section 12G.  For the purposes of this section the following terms shall have the following meanings:

“Crime” an act committed in the commonwealth which would constitute a crime if committed by a competent adult including any act which may result in an adjudication of delinquency.

“Law enforcement authority” any police department in the commonwealth or any of its political subdivision.

The licenses of any hotel, motel, resort, boarding house or inn licensed by a city or town where law enforcement authorities are required to respond to on more than 3 times in a calendar year for calls involving the commission of a crime may be revoked by the city or town.