HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 3630        FILED ON: 1/15/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 2223

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act relative to the federal protection service..

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

Section 10 of chapter 147 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2002 Official Edition, is further amended by the insertion after Section 10M the following section:—

 Section ION. The commissioner may at the request of the Federal Protective Service or the Chief of Police of the Department of Defense appoint as a special police officer employees of said agency. Such special police officer shall serve for one year, subject to removal by the Commissioner and shall have the same powers to make arrests as regular police officers for any criminal offense committed in or upon the property, lands, buildings or structures owned, used, leased or under the authority of the General Services Administration or the Department of Defense.