HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 3188        FILED ON: 1/14/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 3402

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act for veterans hunting and fishing licenses..

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

Section 11 of chapter 131 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2004 Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting after the fifth paragraph the following paragraph:-

Notwithstanding  the foregoing, no fee shall be charged for any license issued hereunder to a veteran, as  defined in clause forty-three of section 7 of chapter 4 and whose last discharge or release from the armed forces of the United States was under honorable conditions and who is a resident of the commonwealth.  The commonwealth shall bear the cost of such waivers, not the department.