HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 2350        FILED ON: 1/14/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 2819

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act extending a property tax exemption to the surviving spouse of blind persons..

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. Section 5 of chapter 59 of the General laws, as appearing in the 2002 Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting after the word “person”, in line 820, the following words:— “or the blind person’s surviving spouse until the surviving spouse remarries”.