HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 2421        FILED ON: 1/14/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 3409

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act regulating the renaming of municipally owned facilities for private gain..

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.  No municipally owned facility shall be renamed in whole or in part for a for-profit corporation without an affirmative vote of the city or town in which the facility is located at an election concurrent with municipal office holders.

Section 2.  A municipally owned facility which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places may be immediately removed from such listing by the Secretary of the Commonwealth if such facility is renamed in whole or in part for a for-profit corporation.