HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 226        FILED ON: 1/8/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 2762

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act relative to exempting those municipalities which do not accept the Community Preservation Act from paying surcharges to the registry of deeds..

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.  Subsection (a) of section 8 of chapter 44B of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2006 Official Edition, is hereby amended in line 10 by inserting after the word “references.” The following:— These surcharges shall not apply to cities or towns that have chosen not to accept sections 3 to 7, inclusive, as outlined in section 3 of chapter 44B. 

SECTION 2. Subsection (b) of section 8 of chapter 44B of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2006 Official Edition, is hereby amended in line 21 by inserting after the word “photocopies.” The following:— These surcharges shall not apply to cities or towns that have chosen not to accept sections 3 to 7, inclusive, as outlined in section 3 of chapter 44B.