HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 4074        FILED ON: 3/20/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 3951

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act relative to real property taxes..

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

Chapter 59 of the General Laws is hereby amended by inserting after section 21C the following section:-

Section 21C ½ . Notwithstanding section 21C, a city of town may increase its real property taxes by an amount up to the inflation level for the taxable year by a majority vote of its legislative body.