HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 2623        FILED ON: 1/14/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 2285

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act establishing the Massachusetts law enforcement memorial fund..

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

Chapter 10 of the General Laws is hereby amended by inserting after section 35BB the following section:–

Section 35CC.  There shall be established and set up on the books of the commonwealth a separate fund to be know as the Massachusetts Laws Enforcement Memorial Fund to be used without appropriation by a department of public safety for the purpose of making annual payments to the Massachusetts Law Enforcement Memorial to memorialize and honor Massachusetts law enforcement personnel killed in the line of duty.  There shall be credited to the fund revenues received by the commonwealth from the sale of registration plates under section 2G of chapter 90.