HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 2351        FILED ON: 1/14/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 298

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act Relative to text messages..

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. Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 93 is hereby amended by inserting after section 107 the following sections:-

SECTION 108. As used in section 109, the following word shall have the following meaning:

“text message,” an electronic message sent or received via wireless telephone

SECTION 109. No charges over the amount of five dollars may be authorized by text message