HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 1716        FILED ON: 1/13/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 3254

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act relative to the maintenance of the Mass. Turnpike Authority's toll discount program..

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 10 of the General Laws as appearing in the 2004 Official Edition is hereby amended by inserting after Section 63 the following section:-

Section 63A.  There shall be established and set up on the books of the commonwealth a separate fund to be known as the Metropolitan Highway System Toll Mitigation Fund for the purpose of maintaining the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority toll discount program as established by the authority’s board of directors on June 28, 2002.

  Notwithstanding any general or special law or contract to the contrary, a portion of any sums owed to the commonwealth and recovered pursuant to section 83 of chapter 4 of the Acts of 2003 shall be deposited in the fund.  The portion to be credited to the fund pursuant to this section shall be the amount required to fully fund the toll discount program until such time as tolls shall be no longer collected.

SECTION 2.  Section 83 of Chapter 4 of the acts of 2003 is hereby amended by striking out subsection (c).