HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 1831        FILED ON: 1/13/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 2844

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act relative to payment in lieu of taxes..

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

That Chapter 58 of the General Laws be amended in Section 15A by inserting after the words “federal government” the following: “and land under the care and control of the commonwealth and used as a jail or house of correction and which was at the time of its acquisition by the commonwealth under the care and control of county government.”

Provided further that any county correctional facility whose operating expenses paid by the Commonwealth exceeds 50 percent shall be deemed a state facility for lieu of taxes on state-owned land purposes.

That Chapter 58 of the General Laws be amended in Section 13 by inserting at the end the following:  “;and of all land held by the commonwealth and used as a jail or house of correction.”