HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 1540        FILED ON: 1/13/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 2699

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act relative to certain r eal estate tax abatements..

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

Chapter 59 of the General Laws is hereby amended by inserting after section 5J the following section:-

Section 5K. Notwithstanding section 5, any person who is entitled to an exemption under clause twenty second of said section 5 for having been awarded the purple heart and who also is entitled to an exemption under clause thirty-seven A of said section 5 as a result of being blind shall be entitled to receive both exemptions.