HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 1226        FILED ON: 1/13/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 2871

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act freezing real estate taxes on certain persons who have attained the age of 70..

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 19 the following section:-

Section 19A.  A city, by vote of its council and approval of its mayor, or a town, by vote of town meeting, may adopt the following tax freeze provision:  No person entitled to an abatement under clause Forty-first of section 5 shall be assessed for any property tax in any year which is greater in amount than the tax he paid on such property in the previous year.