HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 2624        FILED ON: 1/14/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 3322

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act relative to the issuance of a motor vehicle citation for firearms arrests..

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

Section 22 of chapter 90 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2006 Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting after subsection (j) the following new subsection:-

(k) The registrar shall suspend or revoke, without hearing, a certificate of registration or any license or right to operate of a person who is convicted of a violation of any provision of sections 121 through 131P, inclusive, of chapter 140 or any provision of chapter 269 or adjudged a delinquent child by reason of having violated any provision of such chapters; provided, however, that the period of suspension or revocation shall not exceed five years; provided further, that any person so convicted who is under the age of eighteen years and is not licensed to operate a motor vehicle shall, at the discretion of the presiding judge, not be so licensed for a period no later than when such person reaches the age of twenty-one years.