HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 2478        FILED ON: 1/14/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 3115

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act requiring public telephones to be equipped with a headset for hearing amplification..

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 84E of chapter 6 of the General Laws is hereby amended by adding the following new paragraph after paragraph (c): —(d) The office shall oversee all public telephones in the Commonwealth to make sure that wherever one or more telephones are located in a public place for public use, whether coin operated or free, at least one of the phones must be equipped with a handset for hearing amplification.