HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 1115        FILED ON: 1/13/2009

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The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

 

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act to Reduce Coal Burning and Use..

 

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. Chapter 164 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2002 Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting after section 69I the following section:

Section 69I½

Notwithstanding the provisions of this chapter or any law to the contrary, a facility constructed or commencing operation on and after January first, two thousand ten shall not utilize or gasify coal.