HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 1388        FILED ON: 1/13/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 3256

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act relative to motor fuels..

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 5 of chapter 64E of the General Laws is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following: -

“Any excise or tax on motor fuel paid by a department or agency of any city or town in the Commonwealth to suppliers of motor fuels within the Commonwealth shall be reimbursed to said city or town on an annual basis.  The commissioner or revenue shall promulgate rules and regulations to record and account for the total amounts of fuel purchased, means to verify said purchases and a timely method to reimburse said funds to municipalities on an annual basis through the so-called “Cherry Sheets”.”