HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 2793        FILED ON: 1/14/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 3782

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act Regarding the Fiscal Authority of Decertified Libraries..

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

Chapter 44 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2006 Official Edition, is hereby amended by adding the following new section:--

Section 73: In the event that a library is not certified by the Board of Library Commissioners as specified in Section 19B of Chapter 78 of the General Laws the sole fiscal authority of the library shall rest with the library’s local Board of Trustees as defined in Section 10 of Chapter 78 of the General Laws.